
Beyond Recovery – supporting vulnerable people in prison
How Beyond Recovery is supporting prisoners through the COVID-19 pandemic from outside the walls.
Here you can find over 750 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.

How Beyond Recovery is supporting prisoners through the COVID-19 pandemic from outside the walls.

My scrutiny of the prison population in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How National Prison Radio is informing and supporting prisoners throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Surviving incarceration – the strategies that disadvantaged and vulnerable children develop in order to survive.

How Switchback is supporting service users in and out of prison. Second in a series on how the criminal justice sector is adapting to coronavirus.

The Howard League launches a new programme encouraging people to think differently about what happens behind bars with a briefing on procedural justice.

A House of Commons debate pack provides important information about health and safety for prison staff.

Four in ten hospital appointments made for prisoners are cancelled or missed and over one in ten pregnant prisoners gave birth either in prison or on their way to hospital in 2017/18.

New research from Barnardo’s provides a glimpse into the ‘invisible’ lives of the children and families of veterans in custody.

The Prisoner Learning Alliance explores the challenges of the new prison education commissioning system.

Report from Prison Reform Trust and Working Chance, finds just 4% women were in employment six weeks after release from prison.

After Prison is an exciting and ambitious new project from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.