The briefing, entitled the Right to be Forgotten, shows how Employers, education providers and others can easily discover information online that they would not lawfully receive via a Disclosure and ...

What makes a good Incentivised Substance Free Living wing? Following on from yesterday’s post on how Incentivised Substance Free Living wing (ISFL) help create a more stable living environment, ...

E arlier this week (10 December 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching ...

Police protection under Section 46 of the Children Act 1989 is a vital emergency safeguarding power – but it is also far-reaching and subject to little oversight. A new (November 2025) evidence and ...

To understand the learning from epilepsy-related deaths in prisons, the PPO team considered three categories of death types. Group 1: Where the primary cause of the prisoner’s death was epilepsy (as ...

This is a guest post by Harry Annison and Daniel Birungi from the University of Southampton. The latest paper (free to access here) from our ‘Rehabilitating Probation’ ESRC research project draws out ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up prison performance in the third of her series of performance tracker guest posts. Day-to-day spending on prisons fell substantially in the ...

It has long been accepted that women take different pathways to men into the criminal justice system. These pathways often reflect life histories marked by abuse, violence, substance use and poverty.

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 latest Academic Insight from HMI Probation focuses on the purpose, value and functioning of knowledge partnerships in youth justice. Dr Sean Creaney and Dr Jayne Price describe how these ...

Brian Leveson's Independent Review of the Criminal Courts proposes fewer jury trials and intermediate courts to tackle court backlogs. This review was always going to be controversial as its remit was ...