R epeat offenders are continuing to “cause mayhem” in their communities thanks to the failure of prisons to provide education ...

A new (26 September 2025) report from the Prison Reform Trust, written by David Cross and developed through a prisoner-led ...

Previous analysis by the Institute of Alcohol Studies estimates that alcohol consumption costs the economy £5.06 billion a ...

The term ‘victims services levy’ is better understood than the present term ‘victim surcharge’. 44% of people surveyed ...

A new government, especially one that has been out of power for 14 years, is bound to want to make big changes. The Labour Government elected last July has been at pains to bemoan the state of the ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts based on perhaps the most important drug-related report of the current century, Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. Today’s post looks at the section from that ...

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 ...

This is a guest post by Jon Collins, Chief Exec of the Prisoners’ Education Trust. Back in April 2022 I attended the first market warming event for the procurement process for new contracts to deliver ...

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 ...

Last week (3 April 2019) Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) published its new Prison Drugs Strategy. There have, of course, always been drugs and drug misusers in prison but over the ...