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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...