Prison
Prisons should focus on reducing reoffending
The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee says prisons need to have reducing reoffending as their core purpose.
18th July 2025
The House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee says prisons need to have reducing reoffending as their core purpose.
An unprecedented alliance of Christian leaders is calling on the government to work in partnership to tackle a failing criminal justice system.
Locations & contact details for prisons, probation offices and probation hostels.
10 things from the 2024/25 Prisons Probation Ombudsman report
Brian Leveson’s Independent Review of the Criminal Courts proposes fewer jury trials and intermediate courts to tackle court backlogs.
Transform Justice report finds victims focused on preventing other victims as priority.
The Chief Inspector of Prisons calls on government to tackle illegal drugs in his 2025 annual report.
Switchback guest blog on their research into prison recalls.
Miranda Bevan, King’s College London, guest blogs on new research from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children in Police Custody
Alexandra Wigzell and Claire Paterson-Young provide insights into progressive desistance practice in youth justice.
Expert working group publishes proposals to end the detention of people on IPP sentences
The Independent Monitoring Board’s annual report addresses the human impact of prison overcrowding.
