The MoJ has just (30 October 2025, updated on 11 November) published its annual report and accounts for the last (24/25) financial year. It’s a blog tradition that I trawl through its (rarely ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up prison performance in the third of her series of performance tracker ...

There will be an increasing need to prioritise preventive health and healthcare for chronic diseases within prisons as the ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up court performance in the second of her series of performance tracker guest posts.

The Howard League explains how the Government's earned progression plan could inadvertently result in increasing the numbers ...

Justice Committee highlights endemic drug use in prisons and says dangerous culture of acceptance must be broken.

David Honeywell highlights the need to fully embrace the views and perspectives of those with lived experience of the CJS for HM Inspectorate of Probation.

A proven reoffence is defined as any offence committed in a one-year follow-up period that leads to a court conviction, ...

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 ...

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 ...