The newest additions to the Butler Trust’s Knowledge Exchange site for prison, probation and youth justice practitioners.

The Sentencing Academy publishes a range of fascinating infographics on sentencing trends over the last 20 years via their Sentencing Hub.

The MoJ has just (12 February 2026) published its youth justice policy statement entitled “A modern youth justice system: Foundations fit for the future”. The statement acknowledges the considerable ...

New research examines the complex reasons why staff choose to remain in or leave the Probation Service in England and Wales, using Hirschman’s Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Neglect (EVL-N) framework as an ...

Life course analysis demonstrated that all participants encountered substantial childhood adversity prior to military service. Whilst the military environment provided protective factors such as ...

C links Reducing Reoffending Third Sector Advisory Group (RR3) Special Interest Group has just (14 January 2026) published a report on a ‘Whole Systems Approach’ for women in contact with the criminal ...

A new (December 2025) briefing from Unlock, the charity which supports and advocates for people with criminal records to be able to move on positively in their lives, examines how the digital age has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...