The prison population is projected to increase to between 98,000 and 103,600 by March 2030, with a central estimate of ...

The newest additions to the Butler Trust’s Knowledge Exchange site for prison, probation and youth justice practitioners.

The prison population is projected to increase to between 98,000 and 103,600 by March 2030, with a central estimate of 100,600.

It is estimated that sudden and unexpected deaths in epilepsy  (SUDEPs) make up around 0.15% of deaths a year in the UK. From ...

The report concludes that probation services are particularly well-placed to recognise and address the needs of ex-service personnel in contact with the criminal justice system. It makes four ...

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 ...

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 is a guest post by Harry Annison and Daniel Birungi from the University of Southampton. The latest paper (free to access here) from our ‘Rehabilitating Probation’ ESRC research project draws out ...

While guidance is clear that police protection should be exceptional and time-limited, in practice, operational pressures, resource constraints and risk aversion mean that children may still spend ...

T he Inspiring Futures research report “ An Evaluation of the Meaning and Impact of Arts Programmes in Criminal Justice Setting s” has just (3 June 2024) been published. Funded by the Economic and ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up prison performance in the third of her series of performance tracker guest posts. Day-to-day spending on prisons fell substantially in the ...