
Health and well-being in future prisons
Latest post on RSA Future Prison report looks at one of the most challenging aspects of reform – how tackle under-pressure and fragmented health provision.

Latest post on RSA Future Prison report looks at one of the most challenging aspects of reform – how tackle under-pressure and fragmented health provision.

New report from Social Finance looks at the spread of social impact bonds across the globe and expects their development to become less complex.

A short profile of the first ever woman Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Liz Truss.

Reports from Clinks and User Voice on the wide range of work done by volunteers in our prisons and the benefits for volunteers and prisoners.

Revolving Doors Agency toolkit provides detailed advice on how to involve service users in shaping your probation service.

HMI Probation report finds that referral orders are successful at reducing reoffending but are poorly understood and implemented in many areas.

Latest post on the RSA FuturePrison project sets out key ways in which the quality of education and work in prisons could be substantially improved.

The purpose of the new interactive tool is to help commissioners, investors and providers consider whether it might be appropriate to use PbR for a particular service. The tool asks key questions on both the rationale for using PbR and key elements of the contract such as defining and validating outcomes and guarding against common PbR problems such as “creaming and parking” and unintended consequences.

How user-focused organisations go the extra mile to help recovering drug users and offenders get into work and turn their lives around.

Electronic monitoring is an accepted and important component within the criminal justice system but its use is insufficiently regulated allowing it be applied unfairly.

House of Commons briefing paper finds alcohol consumption has stabilised but there are still more than 300k alcohol-related hospital admissions in England

An excellent new toolkit from Revolving Doors Agency presents everything you need to know and do to undertake peer research with offenders in the community.