Unlocking Potential

Last month , Prisons Minister Rory Stewart announced that every officer in an adult male prison will be equipped with PAVA – a synthet...

The new Prison and Probation Ombudsman (PPO), Sue McAllister started work yesterday. It’s an important role which had its origins in the ...

Three NHS England report s earlier this month have documented how children can be locked up- basically in prisons, hospitals, secure train...

It’s a quarter of a century since Michael Howard delighted the Conservative Party conference with his 27 measures to crack down on crime. ...

  Did this week’s Party Conference tell us any more about the criminal justice and prison policy we might get from a Labour government?  ...

    A few years ago, I attended a leaving do for a NOMS official with whom I’d worked closely. Michael Spurr paused his generous speech a c...

Should we think of prison officers as emergency workers? T his week’s new law creating tougher penalties for assaults on such workers cert...