The new HM Prison and Probation Service will take over responsibility of youth custody from the Youth Justice Board whose new chair will be Charlie Taylor.
Written ministerial statement To accompany the Prisons and Courts Bill published last Thursday (24 February 2017),
“The Free Prisoner” – a fascinating radical approach to the way we design prison & rehabilitation in the UK. A fully-worked up model using Leeds as case study.
There’s surprisingly little in the new Prisons and Courts Bill about prison reform apart from the profound new duty for prisons to rehabilitate.
Sarah French of the MoJ Justice Data Lab explains how the lab is getting increasingly sophisticated at tracking reoffending outcomes & is always willing to help
Probation inspectors’ very critical assessment of new flexible rehabilitation activity requirements, saying less rehabilitation is being done under new system.
Latest round-up of the latest drug & alcohol facts and figures from Andrew Brown reveals plenty of good news including reduced police use of section 136.
Final report from Howard League & Centre for Mental Health says punitive culture must change if alarming rise in prison suicides is to be reversed.
Judicial Attitudes Survey reveals that most of our judges are unhappy with their pay and working conditions and almost half would retire early if they could.
Fourth paper from the Police Foundation in its police effectiveness in a changing world series examines the impact of austerity on neighbourhood policing.
Inspectors find public probation performing well but private probation struggling to implement new model, although there is praise for work with women offenders
Invaluable DrugWise report on most recent trends in drug use and dealing in the UK at the end of 2016. Unprecedented purity levels & the fallout from ban on NPS
