Nicole Renehan provides practical guidance for those working with neurodivergent perpetrators of domestic violence, based on ...

Last week’s (published 3 April 2026) quarterly Criminal Justice Statistics (which cover the period ending 31 December 2025) reveal the latest trends in the volume of cases going through the system.

Human touch is fundamental to psychological wellbeing. It regulates emotion, reinforces identity, and underpins social ...

A recent (1 April 2026) report from the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee warns that the Prevent referral mechanism is unprepared to deal with reality of modern extremism. The report says that ...

This is a guest post by Amy Loughery, Chris Devany & Laura Bainbridge who share their work on when exploited children exploit ...

Restricted patients are a hidden population within our justice and mental health systems but there were 7,998 people detained ...

My post on the MoJ ministerial team updated today (9 September 2025) with David Lammy replacing justice secretary Shabana Mahmood who is promoted to be Home Secretary. In addition, Jake Richards has ...

This is a guest post by Jon Collins, Chief Exec of the Prisoners’ Education Trust. Back in April 2022 I attended the first market warming event for the procurement process for new contracts to deliver ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts based on perhaps the most important drug-related report of the current century, Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. Today’s post looks at the section from that ...

Abolishing Detention and Training Orders is the key to meaningful decarceration according to Dr Kathy Hampson and Dr Anne-Marie Day. These examples demonstrate that decarceration towards ‘last resort’ ...

To understand the learning from epilepsy-related deaths in prisons, the PPO team considered three categories of death types. Group 1: Where the primary cause of the prisoner’s death was epilepsy (as ...