Cost of living crisis hits prisoners’ families doubly hard
Pact research shows prisoners’ families and loved-ones are facing their own hidden sentence of financial hardship and emotional strain.
Here you can find over 600 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.
Pact research shows prisoners’ families and loved-ones are facing their own hidden sentence of financial hardship and emotional strain.
Research into increasing procedural justice in handling prison complaints
Understanding the key health care
issues for young people in young
offender institutions and prisons
Justice Secretary announces early release and restrictions on short sentences to tackle prisons crisis
Jon Collins of the Prisoners’ Education Trust reviews the statistics for 2022/3 and finds good and bad news.
An international systematic review finds persistent delays in transferring patients from prison to secure psychiatric hospitals
Process evaluation of the drug recovery prison at HMP Holme House
Process evaluation of the offender accommodation pilot at HMPs Bristol, Leeds & Pentonville
Prisons & Probation Ombudsman bulletin on the worrying increase in self-inflicted deaths of IPP prisoners.
Why does the plight of Deaf people in prison go unheard?
The men and women working in UK prisons, IRCs, probation and youth justice are true #HiddenHeroes.
Latest (to June 2023) HMPPS prison and probation staffing figures not encouraging.