Happy to pop in on Jeremy Bentham this week but not sure whether most people felt the same

Article not as bad as the moronic headline suggests. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/0…

Prisons and Probation moved into the heart of the Ministry of Justice? The end of the Youth Justice Board? Mergers of prison inspection bodies? What the bonfire of the quangos could mean for criminal justice. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-fare…

A Farewell to Arm’s Length Bodies? Rob Allen wonders if Shabana Mahmood's spat with the Sentencing Council could precipitate lots of criminal justice bodies being cancelled or merged. As Rob says, with the end of NHS England "nothing is off the table" reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-fare…

Learning the Right Lessons A typically thoughtful & constructive piece on the Abedi case from Rob Allen reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/04/learni…

The secure school promised to herald a revolution in youth justice . Monitoring reports suggest it's struggling to meet some all too familiar challenges. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/04/how-go…

How Goes the Revolution? A difficult start for the first Secure School Rob Allen on two contradictory inspections of with some serious concerns: "the inexperience and low morale of a staff team that do not have consistent boundaries and expectations." reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/04/how-go…

Oasis Restore, the first Secure School opened to great fanfare last Summer, promising a revolution in youth justice. Two recently published inspection reports provide a mixed and sobering assessment of what’s been achieved so far. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/04/how-go…

"My face felt like it was on fire, I couldn't see. I was just left on my own”. There are better ways of reducing violence in youth prisons than spraying pepper into childrens eyes. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/04/incapa…

Incapacitating Children in Custody Rob Allen on the concerning roll out of pepper spray on children reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/04/incapa…

🌱 How can probation services promote #sustainability? New PRI blog by Rob Allen & Steve Pitts explores how greener practices in #probation can support #rehabilitation & #environmental goals. 🔗 Read: penalreform.org/blog/greening-… #GreenProbation  #CriminalJustice

Could a prison queue help avert the prison capacity crisis? It is in the Netherlands. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/05/dutch-…

What can the prison system in England and Wales learn from the Netherlands? A country not long ago renting out its unused facilities to other countries is now having to consider putting mattresses in cells to increase its own capacity. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/05/dutch-…

David Gauke's Sentencing Review out tomorrow is set to recommend fewer short jail terms, a new scheme of earned early release and stronger community sentences. What will all this mean in practice? reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/05/senten…

Will the Gauke review and the government's response to it do enough to avert a continuing prison cacacity crisis? Spoiler alert - maybe not reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-good…

Groundhog Week for Youth Custody Rob Allen on the #UrgentNotification for Oakhill STC reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/07/ground…

Profoundly serious failures putting children at risk of harm G4S run youth prison-and not for the first time

Yet another review out today on the prison capacity crisis in England and Wales. Will it bring about a sustainable future? Rob Allen has some doubts. reformingprisons.blogspot.com/2025/08/capaci…