Jon Collins of the Prisoners' Education Trust sets out the grim details of the slashing of the prison education budget.

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman's office guest blogs on a new learning lessons bulletin about deaths in segregation ...

Hill, highlights the importance of understanding current constructions of masculinity for justice practitioners.

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology examines how facial recognition works, how it is used and the opportunities and concerns.

The latest (20 February 2026) publication in HMI Probation’s Academic Insight series examines the prevalence of Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and links to domestic abuse in justice-involved women. The ...

The Week in Justice 8 March 2026 Violence in prisons has been the main headline this week with the murder of Ian Huntley at HMP Frankland. The Centre of Justice Innovation published a new briefing on ...

L ast week (3 April 2025), Clinks published its latest annual annual State of the Sector report. For over a decade, Clinks has surveyed the voluntary sector working with people in contact with the ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts based on perhaps the most important drug-related report of the current century, Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. Today’s post looks at the section from that ...

Prison inspectors find access to physical activity in prisons varies considerable with too few able to benefit from exercise ...

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 ...

Crest Advisory research find the effects of maternal imprisonment can be severe and long-lasting on children, leading to exclusion and exploitation. Clinks and Birth Companions report into the needs ...

Last 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 services ...