Report from Pact & the Centre of Mental Health says that mental health in prisons presents both a crisis and an opportunity ...

HMPPS published its second annual report on the IPP sentence, covering the 2024/25 financial year. It sets out the action ...

The number of young adults in court for more serious offences has decreased by 65 per cent over the last 15 years. The number ...

The Centre for Women’s Justice presents the accounts of seven victims of coercive control who were unfairly criminalised and recommends reforms in law, policy and practice.

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

A much shorter than usual blog post today but I thought you might find these links useful. Yesterday (15 July), the MoJ published a map of all its properties as well as lists of them all divided into ...

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.

A recent (26 June 20250 report from Transform Justice Beyond the courtroom: do out of court resolutions work for victims? asks the key question of what victims want after a crime occurs. The report is ...