The Howard League explains how the Government's earned progression plan could inadvertently result in increasing the numbers ...

Justice Committee highlights endemic drug use in prisons and says dangerous culture of acceptance must be broken.

David Honeywell highlights the need to fully embrace the views and perspectives of those with lived experience of the CJS for HM Inspectorate of Probation.

A proven reoffence is defined as any offence committed in a one-year follow-up period that leads to a court conviction, ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up their new Public Services Performance Tracker on policing.

In the year ending June 2025, there were 1.36 million defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts, an increase of 5% ...

The Week in Justice 28 September 2025 It will be a surprise if many of the probation officers celebrated on #HiddenHeroes day this week will relish their proposed new powers (which ministers ...

The National Audit Office finds that since reunification, probation performance has declined, with significant staffing ...

Last Friday (19 September 2025) Collective Voice published a Womaninfesto with the aim of improving drug and alcohol treatment for women. The report was written by the Women’s Treatment Working Group ...

This is a guest post by Jon Collins, Chief Exec of the Prisoners’ Education Trust. Back in April 2022 I attended the first market warming event for the procurement process for new contracts to deliver ...

Yesterday (31 July 2025), the Ministry of Justice published its Artificial Intelligence Action Plan which it says sets out how tech will cut reoffending and make streets safe. The accompanying press ...

The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee says prisons need to have reducing reoffending as their core purpose. The report sets out the current state of crisis in our prisons and wider ...