The MoJ has just (12 February 2026) published its youth justice policy statement entitled “A modern youth justice system: Foundations fit for the future”. The statement acknowledges the considerable ...

What made the conference so inspiring was that it balanced all the evidence of racism in prisons (against people in prison and staff) with examples of positive change. The message that together we can ...

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 ...

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

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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

L ast week (3 April 2025), Clinks published its latest annual annual State of the Sector report. For over a decade, Clinks has surveyed the voluntary sector working with people in contact with 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 ...

E arlier this week (10 December 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching ...