The prisons list shows the name of every establishments, its role, whether it is a public or contracted out prison, its ...

Overcrowding, coupled with a lack of activity, caused boredom and frustration among prisoners, which heightened the demand ...

Resolving crime out of court can meet many of these priorities for victims – and it often does. When it worked well, victims ...

Recall decisions are largely at the discretion of probation officers with no clear structure to support decision-making.

Yesterday (10 July 2025), the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman Adrian Usher published his second Annual Report, covering the year 2024 to 2025. The PPO has three main investigative duties: to ...

Brian Leveson's Independent Review of the Criminal Courts proposes fewer jury trials and intermediate courts to tackle court backlogs.

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 his is the fourth 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 ...