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Frontline officers and young people in custody will be better protected under plans to equip specially selected and trained staff with synthetic pepper spray, the Government has announced today (24 April).
The first prisoners have been locked up at a new jail that will create nearly 1,500 prison places, helping to cut crime and make streets safer today as part of the Government’s Plan for Change (23 April).
His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) has today (4 April) launched the Future Prison Leaders Programme to recruit and train the next generation of prison leaders.
“Public safety must never be put at risk again by the failure to have enough prison places”, Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood said as she opened a new nearly 1,500-place prison in Yorkshire.
More dangerous criminals will be taken off the streets thanks to a 700-place expansion which will turn a Suffolk jail into the UK’s largest public sector prison.
Vulnerable girls sentenced to youth custody will no longer be placed in Young Offender Institutions (YOIs)
Foreign national offenders (FNOs) will be deported quicker thanks to a new £5 million government investment in prisons across England and Wales.
GFSL's (Gov Facilities Services Ltd) Board of Directors has recently committed to adopting the Institute of Directors' Code of Conduct.
The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, the Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP, made a speech outlining her vision for the future of the probation service.
Probation staff will focus more of their time on prolific offenders and monitoring the most dangerous people
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.
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