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Deputy Prime Minister sets out step-change in how prisons help offenders into work.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
X-ray body scanners have stopped 10,000 attempts to smuggle contraband including drugs, weapons and phones into prisons in just over a year.
An innovative prison programme that encourages inmates to repair and recycle bikes will aim to refurbish over 900 bikes for hospital staff and children from disadvantaged backgrounds, helping prisoners gain new skills and tu…
Offenders’ community punishments will be better focused on paying back society under a £93 million expansion plan.
HMP Garth prisoners have become the first to build eco-friendly lights in-house, cutting prisons’ energy use and saving taxpayers’ money.
Expansion of Clink Kitchens Scheme to help thousands of offenders find jobs and turn their backs on crime.
Innovative programmes aim to reduce the risk posed by domestic abuse perpetrators and improve safety and protection for victims.
Efforts to drive down crime in the north-east by helping prisoners and their children to maintain contact are underway, thanks to a funding boost from the Prison Service.
The public will be better protected and crime will be cut the Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland vows today (28 June 2021) as the new, unified Probation Service is launched.
Hollesley Bay prison leaver is the first to become fully employed after serving his sentence.
Charities and companies which help rehabilitate offenders have been awarded around £200 million of Government funding to help cut crime in the new probation system.
Young adults supervised by the probation service will receive specialist drug and mental health support at a new £3 million centre to reduce reoffending.
A programme called CRED set up in partnership with HM Prison & Probation Service announces its bold achievements in the face of COVID challenges.
Thousands of offenders will be diverted away from crime by the expansion of a catering training scheme in prisons across England and Wales.
Government announces £70 million investment in accommodation and wider support for prison leavers to cut crime.
38 organisations will receive almost £2 million in government funding so their vital work steering women away from crime can continue.
Review to look at how many offenders have conditions like autism and learning difficulties.
Criminals in Wales who commit alcohol-fuelled crimes can be banned from drinking and ordered to wear a ‘sobriety tag’ by judges from today (Wednesday 21 October) and will be extended to England early next year.
New legislation will help ex-offenders to find a job – allowing them to turn their lives around and ending the cycle of crime.
An extra 1,700 offenders will receive closer supervision on their release from prison under plans to expand the number of places in approved premises.
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