N early two-thirds of people entering prison (65%) are likely to struggle with everyday literacy, while 69% are likely to ...

Earlier this week (1 July 2026), the government announced the launch of an independent review of the prison system to ...

Academic Insight in HMI Probation’s extensive series features Dr Sean Brophy writing on Contemporary leadership evidence for ...

Recent (May 2026) research from the law department at RMIT University based in Melbourne, Australia makes for interesting reading. Beyond the Charge: Understanding support needs of women prosecuted ...

This is the second in a series of posts looking into the detail of the Independent Sentencing Review whose main recommendations I summarised here. Today’s post looks at Chapter Two of Mr Gauke’s ...

C links’ new (30 January 2025) report, written by Drs Ruth Armstrong & Shona Minson, ‘ Justice Changes Her Face’: What Women’s Problem-Solving Courts can teach us about taking a Community Based Whole ...

T he Inspiring Futures research report “ An Evaluation of the Meaning and Impact of Arts Programmes in Criminal Justice Setting s” has just (3 June 2024) been published. Funded by the Economic and ...

Everyone knows that our prison and probation services are facing one of the worst crises in their history. The Government has been trying to tackle the problem by easing demand via the early release ...

This is a guest post by Dr Nicole Renehan of Durham University & Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Director of Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Victoria, Australia. This new research ...

Abolishing Detention and Training Orders is the key to meaningful decarceration according to Dr Kathy Hampson and Dr Anne-Marie Day. These examples demonstrate that decarceration towards ‘last resort’ ...

A new (9 January 2025) report describes a study of clinical outcomes for participants of the learning disabilities and challenges (LDC) suite of accredited offending behaviour programmes. The LDC ...

Yesterday the government announced it has abandoned its plans to close our most dilapidated Victorian prisons. The plan to modernise our prison estate was originally proposed by Michael Gove in ...