The Probation Service plays a vital role in public safety, supervising over 240,000 people in the community and supporting courts, prisons, and the police. And it serves as a stri ...

Fortunately, attested to by the publication of: The Role of Food in Rehabilitation and Resettlement: Good Food and Good Lives ...

This lack of time out of cell undermines efforts to reduce reoffending and contributes to poor mental health and disengagement, it added. Purposeful activity, including education, work, and offending ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up prison performance in the third of her series of performance tracker ...

There will be an increasing need to prioritise preventive health and healthcare for chronic diseases within prisons as the ...

The MoJ has just (30 October 2025, updated on 11 November) published its annual report and accounts for the last (24/25) financial year. It’s a blog tradition that I trawl through its (rarely ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up court performance in the second of her series of performance tracker guest posts.

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up prison performance in the third of her series of performance tracker guest posts. Landmark report on the health of people in prison, on ...

The Week in Justice 2 November 2025 The media spent much of the week following up on the erroneous release of a sex offender while the customary end of quarter data releases revealed the ever-growing ...

The Howard League explains how the Government's earned progression plan could inadvertently result in increasing the numbers ...

A new (31 October 2025) report from the House of Commons Justice Committee on Tackling the drugs crisis in our prisons says that use of illicit drugs and the trade in them across prisons has reached ...