Last week, the Probation Inspectorate published its fourth annual report on serious further offences. Serious further offences (SFO) are specific violent and sexual offences committed by people who ...

E arlier this week (10 December 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching ...

Cassie Edmiston, Head of Fundraising and External Affairs at Prisoners' Education Trust, sets out how the government can boost digital learning in prisons. I’m of an age where I remember the time ...

Last week (18 June 2021), HMI Probation published the latest in its Academic Insights series. This report, written by Katherine Albertson, summarises the concept of social capital and how increases in ...

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 ...

This afternoon (2 September 2025) the Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood “laid before parliament” the Sentencing Bill, the major piece of legislation intended to implement the findings of David Gauke’s ...

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 ...

This is a guest post by Harry Annison and Daniel Birungi from the University of Southampton. The latest paper (free to access here) from our ‘Rehabilitating Probation’ ESRC research project draws out ...

Crest Advisory research find the effects of maternal imprisonment can be severe and long-lasting on children, leading to exclusion and exploitation. Clinks and Birth Companions report into the needs ...

The MoJ has recently announced what it describes as ” a new leadership model” for HMPPS. Two new Director General (DG) posts will be created; DG Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a DG Operations. The ...

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 ...

Y esterday (2 May 2024) Clinks published a report from the RR3 Special Interest Group on Accommodation as part of the work of the Reducing Reoffending Third Sector Advisory Group. The report Breaking ...