Justice Committee highlights endemic drug use in prisons and says dangerous culture of acceptance must be broken.

David Honeywell highlights the need to fully embrace the views and perspectives of those with lived experience of the CJS for HM Inspectorate of Probation.

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% ...

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 ...

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

The hidden cost of England’s so-called “prolific offenders” the people repeatedly in the headlines for shoplifting and low-level crime – is laid bare in research by Revolving Doors and Newton. The ...

The MoJ has just (16 October 2025) published a process evaluation of early delivery of the the Rapid Deployment Cells (RDC) Programme. RDCs are modular, self-contained units with a 15-year lifespan ...

Earlier this week (15 October 2025) HM Inspectorate of Probation and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services published a joint inspection report into “The effectiveness of diverting ...