Following on from yesterday’s post on how Incentivised Substance Free Living wing (ISFL) help create a more stable liv ...

Randomised Controlled Trial finds incentivised substance free living prison wings provide a more stable environment.

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 ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up overall government performance in the last of her series of performance tracker guest posts. We all know that crime does not exist in a vacuum, ...

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 ...

When we told (some) colleagues that we’d been commissioned to produce an edited book about food and rehabilitation, we were met with raised eyebrows, bemusement, incredulity, even pity. Food’s ...

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 ...

This problem is an underacknowledged factor in the prison population crisis, and Switchback has published a new report presenting recommendations for urgent change. Several other justice organisations ...

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 ...