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Mitie Care & Custody has been awarded the contract to operate HMP Millsike, the UK’s first all-electric prison that will provide around 1,500 places. 

• Updated: 23 April 2024

Despicable people who create sexually explicit ‘deepfakes’ will face prosecution under a new law announced by the government today (16 April 2024).

• Updated: 16 April 2024

Communities blighted by vandalism and fly-tipping will be cleaned up by offenders as part of delivering on plans to crackdown on anti-social behaviour.

• Updated: 22 March 2024

Young offenders from HMYOI Cookham Wood will be transferred and the site repurposed as an adult prison under plans announced by the Ministry of Justice today (21 March 2024).

• Updated: 21 March 2024

Tougher sentences for cowardly killers delivered a year on from Wade Review.

• Updated: 18 March 2024

UK statement for Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on Torture. Delivered at the 55th Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva.

• Updated: 8 March 2024

New laws will see harmful content filmed inside prisons removed from social media platforms more quickly – shielding victims from further trauma and protecting prison security.

• Updated: 4 March 2024

Grant determination letter to Manchester City Council towards the Greater Manchester Youth Remand Funding Pilot.

• Updated: 19 February 2024

Cowards who kill their partners with sexual violence will face longer behind bars as the government continues to clamp down on domestic abuse against women.

• Updated: 14 February 2024

Criminal gangs who try to fly phones, drugs and weapons into prisons using drones face finding themselves there instead under tough new restrictions coming into force today (25 January).

• Updated: 25 January 2024

The Parole Board for England and Wales today announced that Martin Jones has been appointed as His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Probation from March 2024.

• Updated: 22 January 2024

Problem periods, women’s health research and support for domestic and sexual abuse victims are among the government’s priorities.

• Updated: 17 January 2024

The Ministry of Justice has today (11 January 2024) confirmed the sale of the former Reading Prison site to a non-profit organisation, the Ziran Education Foundation.

• Updated: 11 January 2024

The Ministry of Justice has today (18 December 2023) taken over the running of HMP Lowdham Grange in Nottinghamshire for an interim period to improve safety and security at the prison.

• Updated: 18 December 2023

Extra staff have been deployed to HMP Bedford to reduce violence and self-harm as part of a package of urgent measures to improve conditions at the prison.

• Updated: 15 December 2023

His Majesty The King, on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, has approved the appointment of 5 commissioners to the Judicial Appointments Commission.

• Updated: 11 December 2023

The Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor confirmed today (4 December 2023) that the preferred candidate for the role of HMCIP is Martin Jones.

• Updated: 5 December 2023

Bolstered prison security has thwarted thousands of attempts to smuggle drugs, weapons and phones behind bars as the clampdown on prison rule breakers advances. 

• Updated: 4 December 2023

Thousands of rehabilitated ex-prisoners serving long-since abolished indefinite sentences will become eligible to have their licence period terminated earlier as part of new reforms.

• Updated: 28 November 2023

Over 120,000 former offenders will find it easier to get work and turn their lives away from crime following a change in the law.

• Updated: 30 October 2023