Facts and Figures from the 2024 MoJ Annual Report
Interesting facts and figures from the 2023/24 MoJ Annual Report and Accounts
Children in custody being failed
Inspectorate says that children in custody are being failed by having to live in establishments dominated by violence, disorder and lack of education.
Making better use of non-custodial sentences
Dr Stephanie Wallace guest posts on making better use of non-custodial sentences using the Sentence Severity Scale.
How do people serving long sentences maintain their relationships?
Prison Reform Trust report on the challenge of maintaining relationships for people serving long prison sentences.
The growing threat of prison drones
Today’s inspection of HMP Garth, a high security prison in Lancashire, makes clear the ever-increasing threat that drones pose to prison security.
A fall in the number of people dying on probation in the last year
1,404 people supervised by the probation service died last year.
Pressures on prison system keep mounting
Latest Offender Management Statistics show how pressure on our prison system keeps mounting
Police use of digital, scientific and other technologies
How can the police and wider criminal justice system best balance the potential benefits and risks of using new technologies?
The tragic rise of drug-related deaths
There were 5,448 deaths related to drug poisoning in 2023; the highest number on record.
The latest (2024) crime trends
The Office for National Statistics finds notable increases in robbery, violence with injury and consumer and retail fraud in the year ending June 2024.
Barriers to safe housing for Black and minoritised women
Katy Swaine Williams on a new Hibiscus report which identifies barriers to safe housing for Black and minoritised women.
£12million invested in technology to cut drug deaths
£12 million investment in wearable technology, virtual reality and artificial intelligence to support people with drug addictions and save lives
