
How to foster leadership in future prisons
Latest blog post on the RSA Future Prisons report which looks at the key issues of leadership, governor automony and devolution as drivers of penal reform.

Latest blog post on the RSA Future Prisons report which looks at the key issues of leadership, governor automony and devolution as drivers of penal reform.

Digital interventions for cannabis problems are promising and could help access large numbers of people who don’t want to use drug treatment agencies

New report from Home Affairs Committee recommends legalising prostitution to protect sex workers from being criminalised and stigmatised.

The latest edition of the Prison Reform Trust’s Bromley Briefings shows the desperate state of the prison system in revealing detail.

Fascinating new book by Doctor Hannah Graham explores how probation officers resolve conflicts between their own values & the requirements of their organisation

The 2016 Global Drug Survey reveals the world’s 10 most popular illegal drugs and charts the rise of laughing gas and resurgence of Ecstasy.

Latest post on RSA’s blueprint for the Future Prison explores the key concepts of risk and rehabilitation and why they are too often considered to be opposites.

How new Social Enterprise “Jobs, Friends and Houses” is helping turn round the lives of offenders in Blackpool.

The final post in a series on the EMCDDA’s 2016 report on drug use in Europe finds a continuing decline in HIV but a worrying rise in drug-related deaths.

New Howard League report reveals that the use of restraint and solitary confinement for children in custody have worsened over the last decade.

June 2016 round up of interesting drug and alcohol facts from Andrew Brown focuses on Scottish Prisoner survey, rough sleeping and poisonings among teenagers.

Provocative and stimulating article by Professor Wendy Fitzgibbon on whether private probation will focus on innovation or cost cutting.