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

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

Alexandra Wigzell and Claire Paterson-Young provide insights into progressive desistance practice in youth justice.

L aura Pope, an HMPPS researcher, has published findings from a qualitative case study approach exploring Offender Management in Custody (OMiC) in four male closed prisons in the latest edition of ...

Y esterday (23 June 2025) an expert working group led by a former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales published a report with considered proposals aimed at protecting the public while ending the ...

T he Week in Justice is a short email digest of the latest news and views on criminal justice matters in the UK (mainly England & Wales). It shares interactive headlines on new policy announcements, ...

The Howard League has set up a hotline to advise people on IPP sentences about the new arrangements for terminating their licence. The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has published a 5-point plan ...

In addition to interviewing 30 individuals who had been recalled to prison on IPP licences, we also interviewed prison, probation and parole board staff. One of the areas which caused confusion was ...

Conclusions The key findings of Dame Carol’s analysis of revenue from the illicit drug market in England and Wales are: It is estimated that consumers in England and Wales spent £9.4 billion on drugs ...

A s 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 ...

L ast month I wrote about the MoJ’s new leadership model for HMPPS and what I could glean about the new ONE HMPPS model, questioning whether it was in fact a merger of the prison and probation ...

I am not a criminal. Sure, I have seventeen convictions to my name, but the reality is that I am just one of millions of people who have been let down by misinformed policies, biased interventions, ...