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

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

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 ...

Our new report, Beyond the classroom, explores the experiences of people studying distance learning courses in prison and the views of the prison staff who make it possible. What struck me most in ...

Recent (May 2026) research from the law department at RMIT University based in Melbourne, Australia makes for interesting reading. Beyond the Charge: Understanding support needs of women prosecuted ...

The latest (19 June 2026) Academic Insight in HMI Probation’s extensive series features Dr Sean Brophy writing on Contemporary leadership evidence for probation and youth justice services. The report ...

Earlier this week (1 July 2026), the government announced the launch of an independent review of the prison system to “provide a strategic, risk-based assessment of the current, emerging and future ...