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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Week in Justice 16 November 2025 As the headlines continued to focus on prisoners wrongly released, the government also published its plans to reform what happens to girls in custody. Perhaps the ...

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

This is the fifth in a series of posts based on perhaps the most important drug-related report of the current century, Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. Today’s post looks at the section from that ...