tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/search/news-and-communications 2025-05-14T00:00:00+01:00 HM Government tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/speeches/lord-chancellor-and-moj-permanent-secretary-prison-capacity-press-conference 2025-05-14T00:00:00+01:00

The Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP and Amy Rees CB spoke in a briefing at Downing Street about the extent of the prison capacity crisis and plans to counter it.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/seismic-shift-to-improve-professional-standards-across-hm-prison-and-probation-service 2025-05-06T17:33:31+01:00

Reports of bullying and harassment are “a wake-up call and an opportunity to change�, Lord Timpson said today (6 May), after a review recommended wholesale change to how HM Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) deals with com�

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/first-prisoners-arrive-at-new-1500-place-jail 2025-04-23T00:00:00+01:00

The first prisoners have been locked up at a new jail that will create nearly 1,500 prison places, helping to cut crime and make streets safer today as part of the Government’s Plan for Change (23 April).

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/have-you-got-what-it-takes-dynamic-and-talented-people-wanted-to-lead-our-prisons-as-exclusive-leadership-programme-launches 2025-04-04T00:00:00+01:00

His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) has today (4 April) launched the Future Prison Leaders Programme to recruit and train the next generation of prison leaders.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/new-1500-place-prison-opens-as-government-grips-crisis 2025-03-28T10:42:56+00:00

“Public safety must never be put at risk again by the failure to have enough prison places�, Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood said as she opened a new nearly 1,500-place prison in Yorkshire.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/prison-expanded-to-create-uks-largest-jail-and-keep-public-safe 2025-03-07T16:12:07+00:00

More dangerous criminals will be taken off the streets thanks to a 700-place expansion which will turn a Suffolk jail into the UK’s largest public sector prison.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/government-no-longer-places-girls-in-young-offender-institutions 2025-03-04T09:00:04+00:00

Vulnerable girls sentenced to youth custody will no longer be placed in Young Offender Institutions (YOIs)

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/foreign-criminals-to-be-deported-quicker 2025-03-03T09:54:39+00:00

Foreign national offenders (FNOs) will be deported quicker thanks to a new £5 million government investment in prisons across England and Wales.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/publications/psprb-response-to-the-2025-26-england-and-wales-remit-letter-and-timetable 2025-01-31T16:40:53+00:00

Correspondence from PSPRB Chair to the Minister of State for Justice relating to 2025-26 remit letter and timetable.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/susannah-hancock-to-review-girls-placements-in-youth-custody 2024-11-07T16:19:41+00:00

Susannah Hancock will carry out an independent review of the placement of girls in the children and young people’s secure estate.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/end-of-lifetime-licences-for-rehabilitated-ipp-offenders 2024-11-01T09:29:32+00:00

Around 1,800 rehabilitated offenders still under indefinite probation oversight for abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences, years after completing their prison terms, will have this supervision lifted t�

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/landmark-sentencing-review-launched-to-end-prison-crisis 2024-10-21T00:00:00+01:00

Public safety will be at the heart of an independent review into sentencing, as the government pledges to end the crisis in our prisons.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/process-activated-to-manage-prisoner-movements 2024-08-19T00:00:00+01:00

A temporary measure to manage pressures in prisons in the north of England has been reactivated, following longstanding capacity failures and recent outbreaks of far-right disorder.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/speeches/new-lord-chancellor-sets-out-measures-to-avert-prison-capacity-crisis 2024-07-16T00:00:00+01:00

In a major speech at HMP Five Wells, the Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood KC MP set out measures to protect the public by preventing prisons from running out of places.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/lord-chancellor-sets-out-immediate-action-to-defuse-ticking-prison-time-bomb 2024-07-12T15:15:41+01:00

Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood has set out how the government will stop the impending collapse of the criminal justice system.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/new-prison-punishments-introduced-to-curb-bad-behaviour 2024-05-13T16:12:04+01:00

Prisoners who break the rules while behind bars face new community payback-style punishments like repair work and litter picking, under tough prison rules to be set out this week.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/government-backs-record-numbers-of-female-offenders-into-work 2024-05-13T12:06:37+01:00

More female offenders than ever recorded before are in work 6 months after their release from prison as a direct result of government action � cutting crime and keeping the public safe.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/mental-health-funding-to-tackle-reoffending-in-wales 2024-04-29T12:58:28+01:00

Offenders in Wales with low-level mental health issues will be required to address them as part of a government scheme to tackle a major root cause of crime.

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/news/contract-awarded-for-uks-first-all-electric-green-prison 2024-04-23T00:00:00+01:00

Mitie Care & Custody has been awarded the contract to operate HMP Millsike, the UK’s first all-electric prison that will provide around 1,500 places.�

tag:www.gov.uk,2005:/government/publications/psprb-response-to-the-2024-england-and-wales-round-remit-letter 2024-04-11T13:58:20+01:00

Correspondence between PSPRB Chair and Minister of State for Justice relating to 2024 round remit letter and timetable.