The latest (19 November 2024) horizon scanning report from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) reflects ...

S urvey respondents were asked how much they know about prisons. Almost three quarters said their knowledge of prisons was ...

The department’s total operating expenditure for the financial year 2023/24 was £13.6 billion, a jump from the £11.8 billion ...

Inspectorate says that children in custody are being failed by having to live in establishments dominated by violence, ...

Dr Stephanie Wallace guest posts on making better use of non-custodial sentences using the Sentence Severity Scale.

Dr Stephanie Wallace guest posts on making better use of non-custodial sentences using the Sentence Severity Scale.

The current pressure on prison places has largely been driven by the significant increase in people receiving long custodial sentences over the last two decades. This growth in the long-term prison ...

Today’s inspection of HMP Garth, a high security prison in Lancashire, makes clear the ever-increasing threat that drones pose to prison security. As police officers now, much of law enforcement in ...

Every year the MoJ publishes official statistics on Deaths of offenders in the community for the previous year. Unsurprisingly, this is the statistical bulletin I least look forward to covering but it ...

Yesterday’s (31 October 2024) quarterly Offender Management Statistics graphically illustrate the size of the new Government’s challenge in keeping out prison system from complete failure due to ...