A proven reoffence is defined as any offence committed in a one-year follow-up period that leads to a court conviction, ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up their new Public Services Performance Tracker on policing.

In the year ending June 2025, there were 1.36 million defendants proceeded against at magistrates’ courts, an increase of 5% ...

Revolving Doors and Newton identify the hidden cost of prolific offending and recommend an effective response.

The National Audit Office finds that since reunification, probation performance has declined, with significant staffing ...

Cell: All cells had a private ensuite, with a shower and a toilet, a desk, chair and bed. At several prison sites, ...

The Week in Justice 19 October 2025 This week's criminal justice news and reports continue to paint a picture of a failing system. A joint inspection into prison work and training concluded that the ...

A new (26 September 2025) report from the Prison Reform Trust, written by David Cross and developed through a prisoner-led consultation at HMP Glenochil, calls for urgent reforms to restore hope for ...

Each year the prison education statistics come out from the Ministry of Justice. And each year they tell a pretty familiar story of high levels of need that prisons are struggling to meet. This year’s ...

IPPR, the Institute for Public Policy Research, has just (8 October 2025) published a new report “Taking stock: Counting the economic costs of alcohol harm”. The report, written by Jamie O’Halloran ...

The Sentencing Academy has published a new (30 September 2025) report, authored by Rory Kelly, Julian V. Roberts, Jonathan Bild and Raphael Freund, that explores public understanding of some key ...