Prison staffing. There were 22,534 FTE band 3-5 prison officers in post on 30 September 2025. These are the key operational grades in public sector prisons; consisting of band 3 p ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up overall government performance in the last of her series of ...

The Probation Service plays a vital role in public safety, supervising over 240,000 people in the community and supporting courts, prisons, and the police. And it serves as a stri ...

Fortunately, attested to by the publication of: The Role of Food in Rehabilitation and Resettlement: Good Food and Good Lives ...

This lack of time out of cell undermines efforts to reduce reoffending and contributes to poor mental health and disengagement, it added. Purposeful activity, including education, work, and offending ...

The MoJ has just (30 October 2025, updated on 11 November) published its annual report and accounts for the last (24/25) financial year. It’s a blog tradition that I trawl through its (rarely ...

Cassia Rowland from the Institute for Government sums up prison performance in the third of her series of performance tracker ...

A new (31 October 2025) report from the House of Commons Justice Committee on Tackling the drugs crisis in our prisons says that use of illicit drugs and the trade in them across prisons has reached ...

The Week in Justice 16 November 2025 As the headlines continued to focus on prisoners wrongly released, the government also published its plans to reform what happens to girls in custody. Perhaps the ...

Last week, the National Audit Office revealed that the probation service was officially thought to need an extra 3,150 staff to be able to deliver a basic standard of sentence management. It now looks ...

Last week (23 October 2025) the MoJ published the latest quarterly criminal justice statistics for the quarter ending 30 June 2025. The figures make it clear that the pressures on our failing court, ...

The National Audit Office (NAO) has today (24 October 2025) published a new report “Building an effective and resilient Probation Service” which says that the Government must actively manage its plan ...