The latest (March 2026) update to the female offender dashboard provides comprehensive information on women involved in the CJS.

Research & Analysis Bulletin from the Probation Inspectorate looks at the role of probation hostels. The report, Bridging ...

“Gives a sh*t”: The adage often given to teachers that students want to ‘know that you care before they care what you know’ is applicable here. This is best communicated through action, but at its ...

Centre for Justice Innovation evidence and practice briefing on improving collaboration between police forces and women’s ...

Centre for Justice Innovation evidence and practice briefing on improving collaboration between police forces and women’s centres. Dr Hope Kent and Professor Stan Gilmour highlight the prevalence of ...

The Week in Justice 8 March 2026 Violence in prisons has been the main headline this week with the murder of Ian Huntley at HMP Frankland. The Centre of Justice Innovation published a new briefing on ...

L ast week (3 April 2025), Clinks published its latest annual annual State of the Sector report. For over a decade, Clinks has surveyed the voluntary sector working with people in contact with the ...

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 ...

New prison population data reveals that the number of female prisoners has grown much faster than that of male prisoners. Since 2000, the number of women and girls in prison has surged by 57%, ...

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 ...

Kieran McCartan summarises the evidence base around trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences in the lives of people who have committed offences. Trauma is a broad and varied concept, but fundamentally ...

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 ...