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Correspondence from PSPRB Chair to the Minister of State for Justice relating to 2025-26 remit letter and timetable.
The Lord Chancellor opened the first meeting of the Women’s Justice Board with a clear mission statement to send fewer women to prison.
Cutting crime and reducing the number of vulnerable women being sent to prison is top of the agenda at the first meeting of the Women’s Justice Board.
Top UK business leaders will spearhead a major new drive to get thousands of offenders into stable jobs and away from a life of crime.
Around 3,800 offenders either released from prison or serving a community sentence will wear an alcohol tag over Christmas and New Year.
Fourteen thousand new prison places, with a target to open by 2031, form part of a 10-year Prison Capacity Strategy to make sure we always have the spaces needed to keep the public safe.
Jealous ex-partners and murderers who use their hands as weapons to strangle victims face severe prison sentences under new laws set to be brought in by the government.
Extra specialist staff, urgent repairs to cells and CCTV cameras and renewed safety training will be carried out urgently at HMP Winchester.
Technological innovations and international prison policies are among things being studied as part of the government’s Sentencing Review.
Bolstered security measures, improved staff training and a bespoke pest control plan will be implemented at HMP Manchester.
Mental Health Act reformed to improve treatment of patients and address disparities.
Broad implementation timelines (subject to ongoing Spending Review) for relevant duty holders under the Victims and Prisoners Act 2024.
Around 1,800 rehabilitated offenders still under indefinite probation oversight for abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences, years after completing their prison terms, will have this supervision lifted t…
At this annual event for HM Judges the Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP spoke about the importance of prisons in maintaining the rule of law.
Public safety will be at the heart of an independent review into sentencing, as the government pledges to end the crisis in our prisons.
Lord Timpson, Minister for Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending, sets out why prison governors are at the forefront of efforts to drive down reoffending.
Remit letter from the Minister of State for Prisons and Probation to the Chair of the Prison Service Pay Review Body (PSPRB).
Refurbishments, extra staff training and a review of security will take place at HMP Rochester in response to concerns raised by the Chief Inspector of Prisons.
The Government plans to reduce the number of women in custody by using early intervention and tackling the root causes of offending, the Lord Chancellor announced today.
UK Statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences.
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