Yesterday (11 December 2024) the Ministry of Justice published its 10-year prison capacity strategy in which it says it will build 14,000 more prison places by 2031. The strategy presents a reasonably ...

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 ...

Earlier this month (5 December 2024), the MoJ published research into drug testing and Incentivised Substance Free Living wings (ISFLs) in three prisons. The research was conducted by RAND Europe with ...

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.

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 ...

Policy shopping from abroad can be tricky to get right. All too often, population and cultural barriers make “copy / pasting” solutions from one country to another fraught with challenge. Nowhere is ...

Earlier this month the Butler Trust announced its Award Winners for 2024/25. There is so much bad news coming out of the prisons and probation sector at the moment, that I thought it would be good to ...

Last week (27 November 2024) Adrian Usher, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, launched his newest initiative demonstrating his commitment to making the complaints process more accessible to people ...

Last week (12 September, 2024), the MoJ published a process evaluation of unpaid work in England and Wales. This was a large scale study undertaken by Tom Jackson, Rachel Crorken, Sheenik Mills, and ...

A new Prison Reform Trust (PRT) report has called for the radical transformation of the prison officer role in England and Wales. Its recommendations include the establishment of a professional ...

New (12 December 2024) MoJ research into the Electronic Monitoring of Domestic Abuse Perpetrators on Licence (DAPOL) makes for interesting reading. The DAPOL scheme was launched in August 2023 in two ...

Last week (12 December 2024) the Office for National Statistics published its latest overview of the extend and trends of illicit drug use, drawing on data from the latest edition of the Crime Survey ...