This lack of time out of cell undermines efforts to reduce reoffending and contributes to poor mental health and disengagement, it added. Purposeful activity, including education, work, and offending ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up prison performance in the third of her series of performance tracker guest posts. Landmark report on the health of people in prison, on ...

The Week in Justice 2 November 2025 The media spent much of the week following up on the erroneous release of a sex offender while the customary end of quarter data releases revealed the ever-growing ...

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 ...

T he Inspiring Futures research report “ An Evaluation of the Meaning and Impact of Arts Programmes in Criminal Justice Setting s” has just (3 June 2024) been published. Funded by the Economic and ...