Regular readers will know I punctuate the year with three Quizzes – Advent, Easter & August Bank Holiday. So here is your ...

The world is becoming more digital, and probation services will need to adapt. My recently published HM Inspectorate of Probation report explores how technology can help people on probation build ...

Yesterday’s (27 March 2025) Criminal Court Statistics show that the backlogs in both Crown and Magistrates’ Courts continue to grow. There were 74,651 open cases at the Crown Court on 31 December 2024 ...

One of the consequences of imprisonment is that prisoners do not have the same freedom to complete day-to-day tasks and access services as they would have in the community. Their ability to get things ...

A new (27 March 2025) report by RAND Europe presents the findings from a systematic literature review on the impact of drug-related law enforcement activity on serious violence and homicide. The ...

Earlier this week (24 March 2025), the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) published the latest Learning Lessons bulletin on property complaints. Property has consistently been the most common ...

Sarah Waite’s research on women’s experiences of being in an open prison.

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and National Women’s Justice Coalition report on creating a criminal justice system which works for women.