Police to reduce enforcement of minor tag breaches as part of the pilot | Officers will not act on breaches of police curfews or tag batteries of under an hour, unless the offender is considered to pose particular risk to the public: news.sky.com/story/police-to…

The UK needs to end its obsession with prisons | Three quarters of prisons are overcrowded, meaning that in practice rehabilitation takes second place to warehousing inmates in cells where they can be kept for up to 23 hours a day: national.thelead.uk/p/the-uk…

If Andy Burnham wants to end rough sleeping he must close the revolving door in prisons | In our fragmented state with its broken public services, health and social issues including repeat offending fall between the gaps – always another agency’s problem: bigissue.com/news/housing/an…

Like reviews, inquiries and inquests, a lot of time, money and effort goes into producing reports, but very little goes into ensuring lessons are learned and deaths are prevented: socialistworker.co.uk/news/s…

New rules to be laid before Parliament on Thursday will give judges powers to punish prisoners who refuse to attend sentencing with up to 84 days’ loss of privileges, 21 days’ cell confinement, 27 days without visits, or visits restricted to once every four weeks for 84 days.

Sentencing Act 2026 | Squaring the punishment circle: revolutionarycommunist.org/b…

Rochester woman starts petition calling for independent reviews of repeated prison recalls: kentlocalnews.co.uk/rocheste…

New Website Launch | Reform and Rebuild | Supporting prisoners serving life and IPP sentences, alongside their families and friends, across the UK: reformandrebuild.co.uk/

A man who was a prisoner at HMP Birmingham has won a High Court battle over how his painkillers were handed out in prison during Ramadan | The judge rejected the NHS Trust’s argument that the original decision could open the floodgates to further claims: insidetime.org/newsround/mus…

Sickness absence across HMPPS remains nearly three times the national average, with mental ill health the leading cause and accounting for up to 60% of working days lost in probation, costing the service an estimated £84m per year.

IPP prisoners can incur debts to the MoJ for behaviour linked to the psychological harm of indefinite detention. If the sentence itself contributes to the behaviour that creates the debt, the MoJ must consider that harm when deciding whether to pursue recovery or grant remission.

Supporters of Charles Bronson are set to protest outside Wakefield Prison to show the 73-year-old, who has spent more than 50 years behind bars since being jailed for armed robbery in 1974, that he has not been forgotten: dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-…