
Interventions with extremist offenders show promise
Results from process evaluations of Motivational and Engagement Intervention (MEI) and the Healthy Identity Intervention (HII) interventions with extremist offenders.
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Results from process evaluations of Motivational and Engagement Intervention (MEI) and the Healthy Identity Intervention (HII) interventions with extremist offenders.

The Howard League reveals that 983 additional years of imprisonment were ordered in 2017 – more than double the number in 2014.

Professor Rosie Meek makes 12 recommendations to make sport and health living a key part of a rehabilitative culture.

Case studies and promotional material for the Unlock Opportunity campaign, highlighting the benefits of hiring prisoners and ex-offenders.

Global imprisonment figures from July 2018 make for fascinating reading; including the fact that Hong Kong has the highest proportion of female prisoners.

HMPPS annual digest reveals range of performance issues including 65% fall in accredited programmes since austerity began in 2010.

The new prison safety statistics sadly show that the epidemic of violence and self-harm continues to get worse.

Latest Bromley Briefing charts the extraordinary rise in prison numbers over the last twenty years, inflation in sentencing and the social and economic consequences of overuse of custody.

Prisoners and probation officers had different perceptions of how much prisoners understood recall, how much they communicated with each other, and the impact of recall on their relationship.

Public Health England’s annual health and justice review highlights specific health needs of women and older prisoners.

Pragmatic and incremental advice from the Criminal Justice Alliance on how to reduce the prison population by 12,000 over the next four years.

The Ministry of Justice is overhauling the way that education is provided in prisons, providing new opportunities for smaller and/or local organisations to get involved.