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 ...

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 ...

When we told (some) colleagues that we’d been commissioned to produce an edited book about food and rehabilitation, we were met with raised eyebrows, bemusement, incredulity, even pity. Food’s ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up prison performance in the third of her series of performance tracker guest posts. Day-to-day spending on prisons fell substantially in the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...