Yesterday (11 December 2024) the Ministry of Justice published its 10-year prison capacity strategy in which it says it will ...

Research finds electronic monitoring of domestic abuse perpetrators on licence is a helpful tool but data is not easily ...

Research into the lived experience of drug testing and Incentivised Substance Free Living wings (ISFLs) in three prisons ...

The new Government is looking to overhaul the whole of the criminal justice system. We already have a sentencing review, we ...

In the last year, 0.9% of people aged 16 to 59 years had used nitrous oxide. This is a decrease, compared with 2023 (1.3%).

Members of the judiciary believed unpaid work served its purpose as a punishment with the opportunity to rehabilitate well.

This is my Christmas Quiz, it works just like a regular advent calendar. Just click on today’s date and answer the question.

Last week (28 November 2024), the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities published the adult substance misuse treatment statistics for 2023/24. In this blog post, I summarise the main trends in ...

The Sentencing Academy has published a new (30 October 2024) report, authored by Professor Kathryn Hollingsworth, Dr Jonathan Bild and Professor Gavin Dingwall, that explores what children above the ...

The prison capacity crisis is the result of previous governments’ failure to ensure that the number of prison places was aligned with criminal justice policies such as sentencing and police numbers.

Prison “restricted status” rules for women and child prisoners are not supporting their rehabilitation and reduction of risk, but in many cases actively preventing it.