Probation Inspectorate report looks at promoting a culture of learning in probation around SFO reviews, moving away from a ...

For at least the last 25 years a prisoner survey has been part of almost every prison inspection undertaken by HM ...

Progress on reducing women’s imprisonment risks stalling unless the government matches its welcome ambition in this area with ...

The National Audit Office finds that the electric monitoring system is not working as intended, despite a huge increase in ...

The Magistrates’ Association has warned that a lack of accessible, useable justice data in England and Wales is undermining ...

Every year the MoJ publishes official statistics on Deaths of offenders in the community for the previous year. Unsurprisingly, this is the statistical bulletin I least look forward to covering but it ...

Adrian Usher, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, has used the publication of his annual report to call for an independent ...

In the final Annual Report of his six year tenure as Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor describes how long lock up ...

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 ...

C links’ new (30 January 2025) report, written by Drs Ruth Armstrong & Shona Minson, ‘ Justice Changes Her Face’: What Women’s Problem-Solving Courts can teach us about taking a Community Based Whole ...

Many readers will be familiar with Hope Street, the pioneering residential community for women and their children which operates as an alternative to custody which opened just over one year ago. The ...

Last week (19 March 2021), HMI Probation published a new research and analysis bulletin on: Caseloads, workloads and staffing levels in probation services. Myself, in partnership with Chris Fox and ...