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.

Police protection under Section 46 of the Children Act 1989 is a vital emergency safeguarding power – but it is also far-reaching and subject to little oversight. A new (November 2025) evidence and ...

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 ...

This is a guest post by Harry Annison and Daniel Birungi from the University of Southampton. The latest paper (free to access here) from our ‘Rehabilitating Probation’ ESRC research project draws out ...