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 ...

Last week, the Probation Inspectorate published its fourth annual report on serious further offences. Serious further offences (SFO) are specific violent and sexual offences committed by people who ...

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 ...

There were 22,534 FTE band 3-5 prison officers in post on 30 September 2025. These are the key operational grades in public sector prisons; consisting of band 3 prison officers, band 4 officer ...

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 ...

Prison overcrowding, staffing shortages and deteriorating infrastructure is having a ‘profound impact on the ability of prisons to deliver rehabilitation’, a new report published last week (14 ...

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 House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee says prisons need to have reducing reoffending as their core purpose. The report sets out the current state of crisis in our prisons and wider ...

Yesterday (23 June 2025) an expert working group led by a former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales published a report with considered proposals aimed at protecting the public while ending the ...

The Government has today (22 May 2025) published its much-anticipated Sentencing Review which effectively sets the policy direction for criminal justice for the rest of this Government. The review was ...