This post summarises what we know about the government’s criminal justice plans for 2025. T here was a consensus that our ...

Research finds electronic monitoring of domestic abuse perpetrators on licence is a helpful tool but data is not easily accessible ...

Prison “restricted status” rules for women and child prisoners are not supporting their rehabilitation and reduction of risk, but in many cases actively preventing it.

Last week (28 November 2024), the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities published the adult substance misuse treatment statistics for 2023/24. In this blog post, I summarise the main trends in ...

Yesterday (11 December 2024) the Ministry of Justice published its 10-year prison capacity strategy in which it says it will build 14,000 more prison places by 2031. The strategy presents a reasonably ...

Earlier this month (5 December 2024), the MoJ published research into drug testing and Incentivised Substance Free Living wings (ISFLs) in three prisons. The research was conducted by RAND Europe with ...

The new Government is looking to overhaul the whole of the criminal justice system. We already have a sentencing review, we now have a Courts Review. Yesterday (12 December 2024), the Ministry of ...

Earlier this month the Butler Trust announced its Award Winners for 2024/25. There is so much bad news coming out of the prisons and probation sector at the moment, that I thought it would be good to ...

Policy shopping from abroad can be tricky to get right. All too often, population and cultural barriers make “copy / pasting” solutions from one country to another fraught with challenge. Nowhere is ...

New (12 December 2024) MoJ research into the Electronic Monitoring of Domestic Abuse Perpetrators on Licence (DAPOL) makes for interesting reading. The DAPOL scheme was launched in August 2023 in two ...