Prison Reform Trust Bromley Briefing shows indicators on safety, use of force, purposeful activity and overcrowding all ...

Part II of Brian Leveson's Court Review makes recommendations about court efficiency including more remote hearings.

I t was evident that there were multiple pressures impacting on probation staff including experiences of change fatigue, intolerable workloads and comparatively poor pay and conditions, which were ...

A project from the Probation Institute, Anglia Ruskin University and Cogito Development Projects, funded by Forces in Mind ...

Despite this the prison population remains virtually unchanged from last year – the most recent figure (26 January 2026) is 87,212 people in prison.

In October last year (2025), the Chief Inspector of Probation Martin Jones took the unprecedented step of pausing the inspectorate’s core inspection programme to try to drive up the probation ...

Introducing judge-only trials for around a quarter of crown court trials, known as ‘swift courts’ or the ‘crown court bench ...

Alongside the white paper the Government is launching a new police performance framework which aims to provide a clear set of enduring expectations for policing to support analysis of performance ...

The event highlighted key current issues and debates around parole in England and Wales, including transparency, implications of the Sentencing Bill, remote hearings, methods of risk assessment, and ...