On Probation
The numbers in prison and on probation are down
Latest stats show 3% drops in prison population & probation caseload.
4th February 2019
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Prison
Prison population to increase by 3,200 by March 2023
Despite decreases since the start of the year, the prison population is projected to steadily increase from its current level.
28th August 2018
Prison
How to start reducing the prison population
Pragmatic and incremental advice from the Criminal Justice Alliance on how to reduce the prison population by 12,000 over the next four years.
20th July 2018
Uncategorized
Prison population to rise again
Official projections predict prison population to increased by further 1600 by 2022. Older prisoners will be 17% of total population by then.
30th August 2017
Infographics
Life sentences for murder are getting longer
Freedom of Information request reveals that the average tariff for life sentences for murder has increased by more than 20% in the last 10 years.
29th June 2017
Prison
2020 women in prison by 2020
This is a guest post by Kate Paradine, Chief Executive Officer of Women in Prison. A broken system Since joining Women in Prison at the end
13th June 2017
Prison
3 million unconvicted people in prison
There are almost 3 million unconvicted people in prison across the world. Proportion of remand prisoners has shot up in the Americas but reduced in Europe.
11th March 2017
Featured
Who’s in prison?
Snapshot breakdown of current England and Wales prison population by age, gender, type of offence and length of sentence in MoJ infographic.
20th August 2016
Prison
Why has our prison population doubled since 1993?
Intriguing and concerning new report from the MoJ traces the massive growth in our use of incarceration at the same time as the crime rate was falling.
12th August 2016
On Probation
11 things I learnt from the 2015 offender statistics
Latest MoJ stats show big increase in long term prisoners and a jump in probation caseload for the first time in 5 years.
15th May 2016
Prison
Is building nine new prisons good news?
Our history shows that when new prisons are built, they are too frequently filled with more prisoners while old prisons are not decommissioned at all.
10th November 2015
On Probation
How many people will be in prison in 2019?
However, one key component which seems to be excluded from these calculations is the likely impact of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms. Many expert witnesses who contributed to the recent House of Commons Justice Select Committee report expressed their concerns that TR would increase prison numbers through two main causes:
30th January 2014
Payment by Results
Prison, Party Politics and PbR
Sometimes one person stands up against a revolution. Thirty years ago, on 23 February 1981, 200 armed officers of the Civil Guard burst into the
1st November 2011
