Part II of Brian Leveson's Court Review makes recommendations about court efficiency including more remote hearings.

National Audit Office report says prison and health services are struggling to battle rapidly changing drug threats.

Prison Reform Trust Bromley Briefing shows indicators on safety, use of force, purposeful activity and overcrowding all ...

Public Accounts Committee report into the efficiency and resilience of the probation service says it is teetering on the ...

Yesterday (18 July 2024) Adrian Usher, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) published the second Learning Lessons Bulletin in the post-release deaths series, highlighting the detrimental effect ...

I t was evident that there were multiple pressures impacting on probation staff including experiences of change fatigue, intolerable workloads and comparatively poor pay and conditions, which were ...

Yesterday (13 October 2022) HMPPS published an Evaluation of Psychologically Informed Planned Environments (PIPEs). The evaluation, undertaken by a team from the Centre of Psychiatry, Wolfson ...

Yesterday’s (15 August 2024) official quarterly criminal justice statistics (which cover the period up to 31 March this year) make for worrying reading. They show significant pressure at every point ...

Despite this the prison population remains virtually unchanged from last year – the most recent figure (26 January 2026) is 87,212 people in prison.

Public Accounts Committee report into the efficiency and resilience of the probation service says it is teetering on the brink Prison Reform Trust Bromley Briefing shows indicators on safety, use of ...

As part of its 2020 European Drug Report published earlier this week, the EMCDDA also made available its annual statistical bulletin which contains the most recent available data on the drug situation ...