H M Inspectorate of Prisons’ latest review of survey responses from children in custody published today (22 September 2026) ...

Jon Collins of PET and Natasha Finlayson of Working Chance raise concerns about cuts to education in women's prisons.

This problem is an underacknowledged factor in the prison population crisis, and Switchback has published a new report presenting recommendations for urgent change. Several other justice organisations ...

A new (15 September 2026) report from the Common Ground Justice Project found that nearly two-thirds of Britons feel likely to be a victim of crime in the next year amid a crisis of confidence in the ...

Acquittal – A judgement by a court that a person is not guilty of an offence for which they’ve been charged. Adjudication – The hearing process following an alleged breach of the Prison Rules by a ...

C links Reducing Reoffending Third Sector Advisory Group (RR3) Special Interest Group has just (14 January 2026) published a report on a ‘Whole Systems Approach’ for women in contact with the criminal ...

Young Adults in contact with the Criminal Justice System All the latest Stats Research Policy Best practice ...

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 ...

C links recently (July 2026) published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching and accessible ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a guest post by Lauren Hayman who shares the findings from a series of interviews with men in Welsh prisons. Lauren Hayman is a graduate of the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology ...