Following on from yesterday’s post on how Incentivised Substance Free Living wing (ISFL) help create a more stable liv ...

Randomised Controlled Trial finds incentivised substance free living prison wings provide a more stable environment.

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 ...

Well over three million people are held in pre-trial detention and other forms of remand imprisonment throughout the world, ...

The prison population is projected to increase to between 98,000 and 103,600 by March 2030, with a central estimate of ...

The report concludes that probation services are particularly well-placed to recognise and address the needs of ex-service personnel in contact with the criminal justice system. It makes four ...

The newest additions to the Butler Trust’s Knowledge Exchange site for prison, probation and youth justice practitioners.

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 ...

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 prison officers, band 4 officer ...