The latest (March 2026) update to the female offender dashboard provides comprehensive information on women involved in the CJS.

Centre for Justice Innovation evidence and practice briefing on improving collaboration between police forces and women’s centres. Dr Hope Kent and Professor Stan Gilmour highlight the prevalence of ...

Research & Analysis Bulletin from the Probation Inspectorate looks at the role of probation hostels. The report, Bridging ...

“Gives a sh*t”: The adage often given to teachers that students want to ‘know that you care before they care what you know’ is applicable here. This is best communicated through action, but at its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Centre for Justice Innovation evidence and practice briefing on improving collaboration between police forces and women’s ...

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 ...

E arlier this week (19 April 2022) Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library that I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching and ...

Everyone knows that finding work is a key component to going straight; a factor which is confirmed by the evidence base. There are four key reasons why employment promotes desistance: An individual ...

Last month I wrote about the MoJ’s new leadership model for HMPPS and what I could glean about the new ONE HMPPS model, questioning whether it was in fact a merger of the prison and probation services ...

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 ...