This is the eighth in our occasional series on key independent organisations operating within the criminal justice sector. The Shannon Trust was founded by Christopher Morgan in 1997 following a series of letters with a life sentenced prisoner, Tom Shannon, in a penpal scheme run by the Prison Reform Trust.… Work with offenders profiles the leading charity helping prisoners read...
Children’s experiences in custody in 2019-20 disclosed a “grim” picture of violence and self-harm and long periods locked in their cells, according to Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons talking about today’s new report: “Children in Custody 2019-20: An analysis of 12–18-year-olds’ perceptions of their experiences in secure training… Work with offenders looks at a troubling new report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons...
Last week Prisons and Probation Minister Lucy Frazer announced £70 million package of investments in accommodation and wider support for prison leavers. The pandemic has highlighted what people in the justice field have known for many years – that a large and increasing number of people leaving prison have nowhere… Work with offenders on £70m package of support...
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation has just published a new report in their “Academic Insights” series looking at best practice in relation to County Lines drug dealing. The report was produced by Professor John Pitts and highlights how County Lines operations have moved to the country and expanded over recent… Work with Offenders on a new report by Professor John Pitts...
A new T2A (Transition to Adulthood) briefing on young adults and remand launched today (Thursday 25 January) makes the case for a reform of remand arrangements for young adults. T2A (Transition to Adulthood) is an initiative of the Barrow Cadbury Trust’s criminal justice programme. The Trust is an independent, charitable… Work with offenders looks at new recommendations to reduce the number of young adults remanded in custody...
The Sentencing Council has published a comprehensive package of new sentencing guidelines for drugs offences designed to reflect a change in the nature of offending as well as taking into account additional offences in relation to new psychoactive substances. The Misuse of Drugs Act offences of importation, production and supply… Work with Offenders looks at the factors behind new Sentencing Council guidelines for drug offences ...
Somewhat unusually, the MoJ chose the weekend (Saturday 23 January) to make two big announcements about the future of work with women offenders. Firstly it issued a press release to say that 38 women’s organisations will receive almost £2 million in new funding to support their work steering women away… Work with Offenders looks at the Government’s plans to send fewer women to prison...
An interesting new paper from the Deloitte Centre for Government Insights looks at the future challenges facing criminal justice systems across the world. The authors’ basic premise is that the global pandemic has accelerated the pace of technological and other systemic change which will demand increasingly swift responses from our… Work with Offenders looks at an interesting prediction of future crime trends ...
Today (20 January 2021) the Home Office and Department of Health jointly announced a £148 million of investment to tackle drug-related crime. The package of investment attempts to take a systemwide approach tackling drugs. Alongside extra resources to law enforcement to try to dismantle organised crime groups and disrupt the… Work with Offenders has the latest on Project ADDER...
The Centre for Social Justice, the right-leaning Think Tank founded by Iain Duncan Smith in 2004, yesterday became the latest organisation to urge the government to make digital technology accessible to people in prison. The Centre’s new report, “Digital technology in prisons: unlocking relationships, learning and skills in UK prisons”… Work with Offenders on a new report from the Centre for Social Justice...