The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee says prisons need to have reducing reoffending as their core purpose.

The prisons list shows the name of every establishments, its role, whether it is a public or contracted out prison, its ...

Recall decisions are largely at the discretion of probation officers with no clear structure to support decision-making.

Resolving crime out of court can meet many of these priorities for victims – and it often does. When it worked well, victims ...

Overcrowding, coupled with a lack of activity, caused boredom and frustration among prisoners, which heightened the demand ...

Tragically, the PPO started investigations into 486 deaths last year, a 35% increase on the year before. 2 There were 398 deaths in prisons (106 more than last year). 73 people died in the first 14 ...

Brian Leveson's Independent Review of the Criminal Courts proposes fewer jury trials and intermediate courts to tackle court backlogs.

L ast week (3 April 2025), Clinks published its latest annual annual State of the Sector report. For over a decade, Clinks has surveyed the voluntary sector working with people in contact with the ...