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 ...

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology examines how facial recognition works, how it is used and the opportunities and concerns.

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 ...

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 ...

T he Inspiring Futures research report “ An Evaluation of the Meaning and Impact of Arts Programmes in Criminal Justice Setting s” has just (3 June 2024) been published. Funded by the Economic and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

C links Reducing Reoffending Third Sector Advisory Group (RR3) Special Interest Group has just (14 January 2026) published a report on a ‘Whole Systems Approach’ for women in contact with the criminal ...

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 ...