Yesterday (11 December 2024) the Ministry of Justice published its 10-year prison capacity strategy in which it says it will ...

The new Government is looking to overhaul the whole of the criminal justice system. We already have a sentencing review, we now have a Courts Review. Yesterday (12 December 2024), the Ministry of ...

T he report starts by describing the significant changes in our prison system over the last fifteen years in particular. It ...

E arlier this month the Butler Trust announced its Award Winners for 2024/25. There is so much bad news coming out of the ...

It’s not hard to see why so many of the things that make their prisons great haven’t yet been implemented in ours. Despite ...

The latest (December 2024) official data projects that the prison population will increase to between 95,700 and 105,200 by March 2029, with a central estimate of 100,800.

People in treatment for alcohol alone make up the second largest group (30%) of adults in treatment. The proportion of people ...

The latest (December 2024) official data projects that the prison population will increase to between 95,700 and 105,200 by ...

National Audit Office report finds that the prison expansion plan was unrealistic and will cost at least 80% (£4.2bn) more ...

More than half (57%) of the children had spoken with their family about what happens in a criminal court, 39% said that ...

Chief Inspector of Probation, Martin Jones, commented on the report: ...