Despite this the prison population remains virtually unchanged from last year – the most recent figure (26 January 2026) is 87,212 people in prison.

In October last year (2025), the Chief Inspector of Probation Martin Jones took the unprecedented step of pausing the ...

A project from the Probation Institute, Anglia Ruskin University and Cogito Development Projects, funded by Forces in Mind ...

Alongside the white paper the Government is launching a new police performance framework which aims to provide a clear set of enduring expectations for policing to support analysis of performance ...

Introducing judge-only trials for around a quarter of crown court trials, known as ‘swift courts’ or the ‘crown court bench ...

The event highlighted key current issues and debates around parole in England and Wales, including transparency, implications of the Sentencing Bill, remote hearings, methods of risk assessment, and ...

L ast week (3 April 2025), Clinks published its latest annual annual State of the Sector report. For over a decade, Clinks has surveyed the voluntary sector working with people in contact with the ...

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 ...

As part of its 2020 European Drug Report published earlier this week, the EMCDDA also made available its annual statistical bulletin which contains the most recent available data on the drug situation ...

This is the third in a series of occasional posts on the work that EP: IC Consultants have undertaken consulting with people in prison on a series of health-related issues. Dr Lucy Wainwright, Donna ...