Nacro report looks at how we can reduce the number of people who die in the days, months, and years after they are released ...

The report: (Mis)trusting Justice? Personal stories of legal proceedings in the Criminal and Family Courts is based on 131 ...

Probation Inspectorate report looks at promoting a culture of learning in probation around SFO reviews, moving away from a ...

Progress on reducing women’s imprisonment risks stalling unless the government matches its welcome ambition in this area with ...

For at least the last 25 years a prisoner survey has been part of almost every prison inspection undertaken by HM ...

The National Audit Office finds that the electric monitoring system is not working as intended, despite a huge increase in ...

Adrian Usher, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, has used the publication of his annual report to call for an independent ...

In the final Annual Report of his six year tenure as Chief Inspector of Prisons, Charlie Taylor describes how long lock up times and poor regimes – which have barely improved since he first took up ...

The latest (15 May 2026) in the probation inspectorate’s Academic Insight series is entitled: Human Learning Systems and Probation Services: Making desistance real. Written by Toby Lowe, Kevin Wong ...

The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman is an independent body that investigates complaints from prisoners, people on probation and those held in immigration detention. We also investigate every death in ...

A new (May 2026) report presents the findings of a peer-led review by the Building Futures Network Group (a Prison Reform Trust initiative) at HMP Frankland, drawing on the experiences of people with ...

This is a guest post by Amy Loughery, Chris Devany & Laura Bainbridge who share their work on when exploited children exploit others. Chris & Amy are from the Vulnerability and Policing Futures ...