Prison staffing. There were 22,534 FTE band 3-5 prison officers in post on 30 September 2025. These are the key operational grades in public sector prisons; consisting of band 3 p ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up overall government performance in the last of her series of ...

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 ...

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 prison performance in the third of her series of performance tracker ...

Last Friday (19 September 2025) Collective Voice published a Womaninfesto with the aim of improving drug and alcohol treatment for women. The report was written by the Women’s Treatment Working Group ...

This is a guest post by Jon Collins, Chief Exec of the Prisoners’ Education Trust. Back in April 2022 I attended the first market warming event for the procurement process for new contracts to deliver ...

Yesterday (31 July 2025), the Ministry of Justice published its Artificial Intelligence Action Plan which it says sets out how tech will cut reoffending and make streets safe. The accompanying press ...