Sue McAllister, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO), has published her annual report for 2019-20, a year which ended with the PPO, like so many other organisations, having to restructure reshaping its activities to ensure it could carry out its vital work during the COVID-19 period. Sue McAllister expressed her… Work with Offenders looks at the annual report from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman...
At the end of last month the MOJ published an interesting and somewhat unusual new report telling the story of the prison population in England and Wales between 1993 and the present day. The report is presented in slidedeck format and is a fascinating read. The report shows how the… Work with Offenders looks at an intriguing new document from the Ministry of Justice...
Last week the Ministry of Justice and the Office for National Statistics published the annual report on Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements for 2019/20. Although MAPPA has only been in existence since 2003, there are now more people supervised under its arrangements than there are people in prison. On 31 March… Work with Offenders looks at the detail of the new annual report on Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements...
The House of Commons Library is a wonderful institution, albeit one little-known outside the confines of the Palace of Westminster. The Commons Library provides a range of services for MPs and their staff, including impartial research and access to resources and training. In particular, it publishes politically impartial policy analysis… Work with Offenders looks at a new House of Commons briefing...
Earlier this week (Tuesday 20 October), the Prisons and Probation Minister Lucy Frazer announced a “root and branch” review of the parole system in England and Wales. The review is intended to continue to improve the transparency of the Parole Board’s work but will also look at more fundamental changes,… Work with Offenders looks at the government’s plans for a new parole service...
This morning Peter Clarke, the outgoing Chief Inspector of Prisons laid his fifth and final annual report before parliament. The report covers all the full inspections of places of detention in 2019–20 – some positive and some deeply troubling – as well as scrutiny of the enormous impact of COVID-19… Work with Offenders on today’s Chief Inspector of Prisons annual report...
In June 2020, the Government published the Harm Review, an expert-led review into how the family courts handle domestic abuse and other serious offences. The review found that the adversarial process in the family courts often worsened conflict between parents, which could re-traumatise victims and their children. In its response… Work with offenders looks at a new briefing from the Centre for Justice Innovation....
Over the weekend the Centre for Social Justice (a Think Tank created by Iain Duncan Smith in 2004) published a controversial new report. “Sentencing in the Dock: The case for a new sentence in the criminal courts of England and Wales”. The report calls for a radical new custodial sentence… Work with Offenders looks at a new report from the Centre for Social Justice ...
The Home Office has published its annual statistical bulletin on Hate Crime. The bulletin contains statistics about hate crime offences in England and Wales for the year 2019/20. Unusually, the Home Office has also published an annex to the statistical bulletin which provides provisional data for racially or religiously aggravated… Work with Offenders looks at the detail of yesterday’s hate crime statistics....
The Prison Reform Trust (PRT) has published the second briefing from its new CAPPTIVE initiative. The Covid-19 Action Prisons Project: Tracking Innovation, Valuing Experience (CAPPTIVE) builds on PRT’s Prisoner Policy Network (PPN). CAPPTIVE aims to listen to prisoners, their families, prison staff, and others to build a picture of how… Work with Offenders on the latest Prison Reform Trust report exploring the experience of lockdown in prison...