Nearly 1,500 prisoners will reside at the UK’s first electric prison which is set to open in 2025. The site will run solely on electricity where others still rely on gas. It will also use solar panels and heat pump technology resulting in 78 per cent less energy useage than… A UK-first, the prison will based at Full Sutton in East Yorkshire and is expected to create over 600 jobs. ...
Crest Co-operative is a charity based in North Wales that run a variety of services including charity shops, a food bank, furniture upcycling through to a radio station. They have around 47 paid staff, between 30 and 35 regular volunteers and through the probation services provide unpaid work supervision for… Crest Co-operative recently won another MoJ contract to provide unpaid work supervision services. It’s something they’ve been delivering for over 20 years. ...
A new report from the Centre for Justice Innovation looks at how the criminal justice system increasingly focuses on serious and prolific offending at the expense of early interventions with low level offenders. The report is entitled: “I didn’t know who to turn to”: Understanding and filling the gap in… There is no cohesive approach to provide low level offenders with any systematic form of support according to a new report ...
Today’s joint inspection report, led by HM Inspectorate of Probation, with HM Inspectorate of Prisons, has found Offender Management in Custody (OMiC) is falling well short of expected standards. The inspectors were so disappointed with OMiC that they went to the unusual step of calling for the model to be… For those in custody, the model transfers responsibility for offender management from the community into prisons...
The Ministry of Justice and the Office for National Statistics have published the annual report on Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements for 2021/22. Although MAPPA has only been in existence since 2003, there are now more people supervised under its arrangements than there are people in prison. On 31 March 2022,… There are now more people supervised under MAPPA arrangements than there are people in prison...
The MoJ has said it has “vastly reduced” the cost to taxpayers as the latest figures were released. The department spent £1.9m on bills in 2015/16 for bills at defunct prisons but by 2017/18 that figure had dropped to £278,107.64 and then by 2021/22 it was £103,774.57. The bills cover… The MoJ has said that it has spent £1,168,572.25 on utility bills at defunct prisons since 2017. ...
The data has been collected by the Home Office from police forces in England and Wales on a mandatory basis since April 2019. The data are published in order to shine a light on the level of these offences dealt with by the police and to encourage other victims to… Last week, for just the third time, the Home Office published information on the number of police recorded offences which were identified as being ‘honour-based’ abuse (HBA),...
We know that this government is keen on imprisonment, it is after all investing £4 billion to create 20,000 new prison places and the prison population is expected to increase by almost a quarter over the next three years. The governments tough stance on crime is not restricted to incarceration… The number of individuals being actively monitored with a location monitoring device (GPS) has more than doubled...
Although the judiciary wields enormous power over individuals, its operations are alarmingly under-scrutinised, and one area that has remained largely beyond examination is judicial racial bias. The research by the University of Manchester and a part-time crown court judge who is a training tutor for the Judicial College, is an… A new report from the University of Manchester and a part-time crown court judge raises urgent questions about racial attitudes and practices in the justice system....
In the report, Ms McAllister who was the the Ombudsman from October 2018 to June 2022, highlights a number of issues. The PPO investigates deaths of prisoners, young people in detention, offenders under probation supervision and individuals detained under immigration powers (detained individuals). The report highlights the case of Baby… Former Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) Sue McAllister has today published her final Annual Report, covering the year 2021-22....