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 ...

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

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

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

Justice Committee highlights endemic drug use in prisons and says dangerous culture of acceptance must be broken.

David Honeywell highlights the need to fully embrace the views and perspectives of those with lived experience of the CJS for HM Inspectorate of Probation.

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 afternoon (2 September 2025) the Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood “laid before parliament” the Sentencing Bill, the major piece of legislation intended to implement the findings of David Gauke’s ...

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 ...

This problem is an underacknowledged factor in the prison population crisis, and Switchback has published a new report presenting recommendations for urgent change. Several other justice organisations ...

This is the first in a series of posts looking into the detail of the Independent Sentencing Review whose main recommendations I summarised here. Today’s post looks at the first Chapter in Mr Gauke’s ...