Regular readers will know I punctuate the year with three Quizzes – Advent, Easter & August Bank Holiday. So here is your ...

Public awareness of sentencing must be raised through increased communication and education. Public trust and confidence in ...

The world is becoming more digital, and probation services will need to adapt. My recently published HM Inspectorate of Probation report explores how technology can help people on probation build ...

The MoJ has just published a process evaluation of the probation service pilot Victim Notification Scheme which is for victims of stalking, harassment and coercive and controlling behaviour, where the ...

Yesterday’s (27 March 2025) Criminal Court Statistics show that the backlogs in both Crown and Magistrates’ Courts continue to grow. There were 74,651 open cases at the Crown Court on 31 December 2024 ...

One of the consequences of imprisonment is that prisoners do not have the same freedom to complete day-to-day tasks and access services as they would have in the community. Their ability to get things ...

Earlier this week (24 March 2025), the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) published the latest Learning Lessons bulletin on property complaints. Property has consistently been the most common ...

A new (27 March 2025) report by RAND Europe presents the findings from a systematic literature review on the impact of drug-related law enforcement activity on serious violence and homicide. The ...

It has nearly been 6 months since I joined the Parole Board as the new Chief Executive last October. It has been a busy period as different parts of the Victims & Prisoners Act were implemented, the ...