Prison inspectors say prisons are not doing enough to help women cope. For some this lack of care to meet their basic needs ...

The Home Office introduced the Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls strategy (the VAWG Strategy) in 2021, the third such strategy since 2010, and published the Domestic Abuse Plan in 2022.

Alliance for Youth Justice urges the government to protect the distinct, child-centred nature of the children's secure estate ...

The latest (24 January 2025) Academic Insight publication from HM Inspectorate of Probation presents an evidence-informed model and guide for effective relational working in youth justice. Authored by ...

Physical environment: All future maintenance and development of the prison estate and the planning of prison regimes should ...

The Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Revd Rachel Treweek, proposes changes to the way sentencing policy is decided.

Yesterday (20 January 2025) the MoJ published an interim process evaluation of the pilot intesive supervision courts (ISCs) undertaken by CFE Research and the Revolving Doors Agency. ISCs are a ...

Abolishing Detention and Training Orders is the key to meaningful decarceration according to Dr Kathy Hampson and Dr Anne-Marie Day. These examples demonstrate that decarceration towards ‘last resort’ ...

A new government, especially one that has been out of power for 14 years, is bound to want to make big changes. The Labour Government elected last July has been at pains to bemoan the state of the ...