is OST (Opiate Substitution Treatment – prescribed medication as a legal and safer substitute for heroin or other opiate use) ...

Overall, WAND shows cocaine has the highest estimated consumption and market value of the 6 key drug types measured. The ...

A new (3 April 2026) Prison Reform Trust report reveals an urgent need for age-appropriate support for the growing number of young adults (aged 18 to 24) serving long prison sentences. There are ...

This is the fifth in a series of posts based on perhaps the most important drug-related report of the current century, Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs. Today’s post looks at the section from that ...

L ast week (3 April 2025), Clinks published its latest annual annual State of the Sector report. For over a decade, Clinks has surveyed the voluntary sector working with people in contact with the ...

E arlier this week (10 December 2025), Clinks published the latest article in its online evidence library which I am lucky enough to curate. The evidence library was created to develop a far-reaching ...

This is a guest post by Jon Collins, Chief Exec of the Prisoners’ Education Trust. Back in April 2022 I attended the first market warming event for the procurement process for new contracts to deliver ...

Many of us like to keep up with the latest developments in criminal justice by reading a range of blogs. Some, like mine, are mainly factual, reporting on the latest research, policy and practice.

This paper draws on findings from a wider study on the criminal justice, Building Better relationships (BBR) programme, a cognitive behavioural informed intervention for men convicted of a domestic ...

To understand the learning from epilepsy-related deaths in prisons, the PPO team considered three categories of death types. Group 1: Where the primary cause of the prisoner’s death was epilepsy (as ...

Y esterday (31 March 2026) Clinks published its latest annual annual State of the Sector report. For over a decade, Clinks has surveyed the voluntary sector working with people in contact with the ...

The latest article to emerge from the longitudinal research conducted with life sentence prisoners by Professor Ben Crewe and his colleagues at the Institute of Criminology is particularly fascinating ...