The event highlighted key current issues and debates around parole in England and Wales, including transparency, implications of the Sentencing Bill, remote hearings, methods of risk assessment, and ...

Introducing judge-only trials for around a quarter of crown court trials, known as ‘swift courts’ or the ‘crown court bench ...

A new (9 January 2025) report describes a study of clinical outcomes for participants of the learning disabilities and challenges (LDC) suite of accredited offending behaviour programmes. The LDC ...

HM Inspectorate of Prisons highlights the importance of reading in prison and says some jails have created vibrant reading cultures. A new report from HM Inspectorate of Prisons published today (13 ...

A Whole Systems Approach to support women combining multi-agency collaboration, women’s centres, diversion pathways, and lived experience expertise. HM Inspectorate of Prisons highlights the ...

The Week in Justice 11 January 2026 Some positive news to start 2026. The Government has launched a major recruitment campaign for new magistrates so that their plans to deal with more cases in 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 ...

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 ...

E arlier this week (10 December 2025), Clinks 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 ...

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 ...

As part of its 2020 European Drug Report published earlier this week, the EMCDDA also made available its annual statistical bulletin which contains the most recent available data on the drug situation ...