Probation Inspectorate report looks at promoting a culture of learning in probation around SFO reviews, moving away from a ...

For at least the last 25 years a prisoner survey has been part of almost every prison inspection undertaken by HM ...

Progress on reducing women’s imprisonment risks stalling unless the government matches its welcome ambition in this area with ...

The National Audit Office finds that the electric monitoring system is not working as intended, despite a huge increase in ...

The Magistrates’ Association has warned that a lack of accessible, useable justice data in England and Wales is undermining ...

Adrian Usher, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, has used the publication of his annual report to call for an independent ...

In the final Annual Report of his six year tenure as Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor describes how long lock up ...

Every year the MoJ publishes official statistics on Deaths of offenders in the community for the previous year. Unsurprisingly, this is the statistical bulletin I least look forward to covering but it ...

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 ...

This is the fourth 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...