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 ...

The Ministry of Justice has just – 11 December 2025 – published (the rather grandly titled) A Randomised Controlled Trial in Four Prisons: Impact of Incentivised Substance Free Living Wings on Prison ...

Well over three million people are held in pre-trial detention and other forms of remand imprisonment throughout the world, according to the latest edition of the World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment ...

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 ...

What makes a good Incentivised Substance Free Living wing? Following on from yesterday’s post on how Incentivised Substance Free Living wing (ISFL) help create a more stable living environment, ...

While most ex-service personnel manage to adapt well to ‘civilian life’, a small number become involved in the criminal justice system. We have two sources of data for the number of ex-service people ...

Yesterday (4 December 2025), the MoJ published its latest prison population projections for the next five years. The prison population is projected to increase to between 98,000 and 103,600 by March ...