The latest (20 February 2026) publication in HMI Probation’s Academic Insight series examines the prevalence of Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and links to domestic abuse in justice-involved women. The ...

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

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.

A new (4 February 2026) report from the Public Accounts Committee into the Efficiency and Resilience of the Probation Service concludes that the service has been “pushed to the brink of collapse” and ...

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, ...

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 ...

New research examines the complex reasons why staff choose to remain in or leave the Probation Service in England and Wales, using Hirschman’s Exit-Voice-Loyalty-Neglect (EVL-N) framework as an ...

Last Thursday (29 January 2026), the MoJ released a number of regular statistical bulletins which show the unrelenting pressure on the criminal justice system in general and the prison population in ...