HM Inspectorate of Prisons highlights the importance of reading in prison and says some jails have created vibrant reading cultures.

A new (December 2025) briefing from Unlock, the charity which supports and advocates for people with criminal records to be able to move on positively in their lives, examines how the digital age has ...

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 ...

Police protection under Section 46 of the Children Act 1989 is a vital emergency safeguarding power – but it is also far-reaching and subject to little oversight. A new (November 2025) evidence and ...

To understand the learning from epilepsy-related deaths in prisons, the PPO team considered three categories of death types. Group 1: Where the primary cause of the prisoner’s death was epilepsy (as ...

This is a guest post by Harry Annison and Daniel Birungi from the University of Southampton. The latest paper (free to access here) from our ‘Rehabilitating Probation’ ESRC research project draws out ...

It has long been accepted that women take different pathways to men into the criminal justice system. These pathways often reflect life histories marked by abuse, violence, substance use and poverty.

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 ...

On the last day of July, the MoJ published a range of different statistics, all of which make clear the full extent of the prisons and probation crisis. To be frank, it is just too grim for me to ...

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 ...

This is the second 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 Chapter Two of Mr Gauke’s ...

The Government has today (22 May 2025) published its much-anticipated Sentencing Review which effectively sets the policy direction for criminal justice for the rest of this Government. The review was ...