This September, Samaritans is marking the 30th Anniversary of the first prison Listener scheme in HMP Swansea. Fran Deschampsneufs, Samaritans’ Functional Lead for Prison Support, explains why the scheme is as vital as it has ever been.

What might be included in the Prisons White Paper and why the voluntary sector should have a meaningful say in its contents.

This blog provides updates on the government's approach to vaccinations in prisons, current progress of the vaccination programme and ways of responding to vaccine hesitancy among people in the criminal justice system.

Clinks is highly disappointed in the plans to expand the women’s prison estate with an additional 500 places to be built into existing prisons. The decision contradicts the intentions of the government’s female offender strategy.

An update on what the prison regime looks like after the lifting of national restrictions in England on Wednesday 2nd December.

On 16th September 2020, the government published A Smarter Approach to Sentencing. This white paper sets out a number of proposals for changes to sentencing in England and Wales.

People who are being released from prison are entering an unrecognisable world. Amanda Sherriff describes how services are responding to their needs.

A summary of the National Framework for Prison Regimes and Services.

This blog summarises the discussion from the recent meeting of the RR3 SIG on Covid-19 which focussed around two documents recently published by HM Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS).

This blog gives an update from Jo Farrar, CEO of HMPPS, on the government’s plans for how prisons and probation will start to recover from the restrictions imposed in response to coronavirus.