The Sentencing Academy publishes a range of fascinating infographics on sentencing trends over the last 20 years via their ...

The MoJ has just (12 February 2026) published its youth justice policy statement entitled “A modern youth justice system: Foundations fit for the future”. The statement acknowledges the considerable ...

What made the conference so inspiring was that it balanced all the evidence of racism in prisons (against people in prison and staff) with examples of positive change. The message that together we can ...

National Audit Office report says prison and health services are struggling to battle rapidly changing drug threats.

Public Accounts Committee report into the efficiency and resilience of the probation service says it is teetering on the ...

Life course analysis demonstrated that all participants encountered substantial childhood adversity prior to military service. Whilst the military environment provided protective factors such as ...

Sir Brian takes the opportunity of the review not just to take remedial action to cope with the current problems but to fix the system going forwards. He diagnoses the problem as “fragmented ...

Anyone and everyone who wants accurate up-to-date information on what is going on in our prisons relies on the prison factfiles produced by the Prison Reform Trust. Known as the Bromley Briefings, ...

A new (21 January 2026) report by the Institute for Government says that the impact of restricting jury trials will have a negligible impact on the courts backlog. The report, Trial and error?: The ...

In October last year (2025), the Chief Inspector of Probation Martin Jones took the unprecedented step of pausing the inspectorate’s core inspection programme to try to drive up the probation ...

Yesterday afternoon (26 January 2026), the Government finally published its policing white paper. ‘From local to national: a new model for policing’ which sets out a comprehensive package of reforms ...