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Here you can find over 500 posts tracking every major development in our prisons since 2011. You can read prison safety statistics, find out about prison reform plans and (often lack of progress), positive developments and abject failures. If you’re looking for something in particular, try the search box below.
Lucy Baldwin explores the persisting impact
of maternal imprisonment on maternal identity and role.
It’s Time is the new campaign for better mental health and wellbeing support for young people in prison from Spark Inside
Prison Reform Trust briefing gives the facts and figures about the 11,000 currently serving a sentence of 10 years or more in our prisons.
IMB annual report for 2020/21 urges joined-up working and properly staffed rehabilitation work as prisons come out of Covid ‘cold storage’
Justice Committee calls for root and branch reform of mental health in prisons.
New Howard League project to tackle surging use of remand among children in custody.
MoJ study explores the role of the Internet in radicalisation and offending of 235 convicted extremists in England and Wales.
Details of the new ministerial line-up at the Ministry of Justice (September 2021).
The MoJ has announced the successful 9 bidders for Phase 1 of the Prison Leavers Innovation Challenge.
Systematic review finds there is little evidence of psychological interventions in prison reducing reoffending on release.
Research into long-term prisoners’ sensory perceptions of the outside world, in
particular through hearing, seeing and smelling.
In part 2 of her Review of Drugs, Dame Carol Black says we need to divert more drug users in contact with the CJS into treatment.