
Making prison visits more child-friendly
How can we make prison spaces more child-friendly for children visiting a parent?
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How can we make prison spaces more child-friendly for children visiting a parent?

Inspiring Futures evaluation focuses on social benefits of arts programmes in criminal justice settings

Joint inspection finds little progress on work with women in prison and on probation.

The 2024 IMB annual report paints a dismal picture of prison life with every aspect damaged by the population crisis.

HMPPS workforce figures to March 2024 show 1,396 more prison officers than last year and 334 fewer probation practitioners.

As police custody suites are once again used to hold people in prison, we analyse the reasons for our prison overcrowding crisis.

Clinks Advisory Group reports on the increasing difficulties for people leaving prison to find rented accommodation.

Justice Data Lab finds that HMPPS CFO employment intervention cuts reoffending by 8 percentage points for men when delivered in the community.

Offender management statistics show a jump in the prison population, the highest ever numbers on remand and (another) increase in prison recalls.

Clinks Advisory Group reports on employment and training in prisons and the community.

Prisons inspectorate explores what eight best prisons have in common

A lived experience consultant from Prisoners’ Education Trust writes about their experience in enhancing prison education.