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Government awards £1.8 million to prepare more offenders for work and training.

• Updated: 24 March 2023

More than 90 business experts have been enlisted as prison employment advisors to help drive thousands of prison leavers into work and away from a life of crime.

• Updated: 23 March 2023

Thousands of prisoners are getting clean thanks to a doubling of drug-free wings in jails as the government’s war on addiction steps up a gear.

• Updated: 10 February 2023

Construction firms have pitched up in prisons across England and Wales for the latest major drive to match offenders with jobs in sectors facing skill shortages and cut crime.

• Updated: 4 February 2023

Dartford debris dump 'planned and cynical' says judge as victims pay for clean-up.

• Updated: 2 February 2023

Thousands of troubled teens to benefit from cash boost to local sports groups.

• Updated: 21 January 2023

The number of people tagged has reached record highs following the government’s drive to use technology to make streets safer.

• Updated: 19 January 2023

A new app to boost prison leavers’ literacy is the latest part of a £20 million government plan to reduce reoffending through innovation.

• Updated: 28 November 2022

Nearly 1,000 prison leavers have been tagged in the first year of a scheme designed to crackdown on booze-fuelled crime.

• Updated: 19 November 2022

Prisoners today (17 November 2022) pitched their business ideas to a ‘Dragons’ Den’ panel as part of a ground-breaking scheme to steer them away from crime.

• Updated: 17 November 2022

Over 600 jobs are set to be created as construction starts on the UK’s first all-electric prison at Full Sutton in East Yorkshire.

• Updated: 4 November 2022

Prisoners will learn the skills they need to stay on the straight and narrow as the latest phase of the government’s plan to deliver 20,000 new prison places gets underway.

• Updated: 2 September 2022

£24 million for services that work with women in justice system.

• Updated: 1 September 2022

Prisoners are to be upskilled in cutting-edge farming techniques as the government continues to get offenders into work and cut crime.

• Updated: 9 August 2022

New prison wings designed to get offenders clean will receive funding thanks to the government’s 10-year strategy to tackle drug-fuelled crime.

• Updated: 22 July 2022

Almost 4,000 ex-offenders have been helped into work since the launch of a major drive to increase employment and cut crime.

• Updated: 15 July 2022

The Prisons Minister spoke to a range of leaders from across the justice sector to set out the government’s progress in modernising the justice system.

• Updated: 15 June 2022

Alcohol-fuelled crime will be cut as offenders released from prisons in England face alcohol bans and having their drinking electronically monitored from today (15 June 2022).

• Updated: 15 June 2022

Prisoners vulnerable to addiction, mental health issues or homelessness will no longer be released on Fridays under new plans to cut reoffending and make streets safer.

• Updated: 13 June 2022

Serious offenders to demonstrably prove they no longer pose a risk to public.

• Updated: 5 June 2022