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.

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 ...

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

A new (December 2025) briefing from Unlock, the charity which supports and advocates for people with criminal records to be able to move on positively in their lives, examines how the digital age has ...

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 ...

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 ...