The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee says prisons need to have reducing reoffending as their core purpose.

The prisons list shows the name of every establishments, its role, whether it is a public or contracted out prison, its ...

Recall decisions are largely at the discretion of probation officers with no clear structure to support decision-making.

Overcrowding, coupled with a lack of activity, caused boredom and frustration among prisoners, which heightened the demand ...

Resolving crime out of court can meet many of these priorities for victims – and it often does. When it worked well, victims ...

Tragically, the PPO started investigations into 486 deaths last year, a 35% increase on the year before. 2 There were 398 deaths in prisons (106 more than last year). 73 people died in the first 14 ...

Brian Leveson's Independent Review of the Criminal Courts proposes fewer jury trials and intermediate courts to tackle court backlogs.

EMCDDA European Drug Report 2020 reveals the shocking levels of drug overdose deaths in the UK.

This is the fifth in a series of posts based on perhaps the most important drug-related report of the current century, Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. Today’s post looks at the section from that ...

Clinks explores the development and evaluation of women’s problem-solving courts in the UK and internationally.