Justice Committee highlights endemic drug use in prisons and says dangerous culture of acceptance must be broken.

David Honeywell highlights the need to fully embrace the views and perspectives of those with lived experience of the CJS for HM Inspectorate of Probation.

A proven reoffence is defined as any offence committed in a one-year follow-up period that leads to a court conviction, ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up their new Public Services Performance Tracker on policing.

In the year ending June 2025, there were 1.36 million defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts, an increase of 5% ...

The National Audit Office finds that since reunification, probation performance has declined, with significant staffing ...

Revolving Doors and Newton identify the hidden cost of prolific offending and recommend an effective response.

The Week in Justice 19 October 2025 This week's criminal justice news and reports continue to paint a picture of a failing system. A joint inspection into prison work and training concluded that the ...

IPPR, the Institute for Public Policy Research, has just (8 October 2025) published a new report “Taking stock: Counting the economic costs of alcohol harm”. The report, written by Jamie O’Halloran ...

A new (26 September 2025) report from the Prison Reform Trust, written by David Cross and developed through a prisoner-led consultation at HMP Glenochil, calls for urgent reforms to restore hope for ...

The Sentencing Academy has published a new (30 September 2025) report, authored by Rory Kelly, Julian V. Roberts, Jonathan Bild and Raphael Freund, that explores public understanding of some key ...