Background The prison estate in England and Wales is crowded. At the end of January 2024, the prison population was 87,538 people. Many adult male prisoners are being held in cells designed for fewer occupants. This can have negative consequences for the safety and security of prisons and mean that prisoners have reduced access to […]
The Ministry of Justice spent over £13 billion to oversee parts of the justice system. This guide summarises our key insights on the MoJ.
The government is not consistently supporting prison leavers in resettling into the community and the quality of services has declined in recent years, a report by the National Audit Office has found.
This report examines the Ministry of Justice’s strategy to improve outcomes for women in the criminal justice system.
This interactive map displays the network of geographies covered by bodies in the criminal justice system, such as the police, courts and probation services.
This piece explains how the NAO uses spatial analytics to bring audit teams closer to the data and visualise the complex geographic relationships at work behind the scenes in the justice system.
This report sets out the NAO’s assessment of the delivery of the electronic monitoring (‘tagging’) transformation programme.
This report examines secure training centres for young offenders and MoJ and HMPPS’s progress with establishing secure schools.
This report examines the condition and capacity of HM Prison and Probation Service’s prison estate.
This guide has been produced to support the Justice Committee in its examination of
the Ministry of Justice’s (MOJ’s) spending and performance.
Government does not know how many people in prison have a mental illness, how much it is spending on mental health in prisons or whether it is achieving its objectives. It is therefore hard to see how Government can be achieving value for money in its efforts to improve the mental health and well being of prisoners. In 2016 there were 40,161 incidents of self-harm in prisons and 120 self-inflicted deaths.
The government is not consistently supporting prison leavers in resettling into the community, a new report by the NAO has found.
This report sets out the NAO’s assessment of the delivery of the electronic monitoring (‘tagging’) transformation programme.
This report examines the Ministry of Justice’s strategy to improve outcomes for women in the criminal justice system.
This report examines secure training centres for young offenders and MoJ and HMPPS’s progress with establishing secure schools.
This report examines the condition and capacity of HM Prison and Probation Service’s prison estate.
This report assesses the government’s plans for, and progress, in reducing the backlog in criminal courts.
This report builds on our previous work and takes stock of the Ministry of Justice’s Transforming Rehabilitation reforms
The Agency will find it more difficult to meet its savings targets now that some sentencing reforms designed to reduce the prison population have been dropped.
Government does not know how many people in prison have a mental illness, how much it is spending on mental health in prisons or whether it is achieving its objectives. It is therefore hard to see how Government can be achieving value for money in its efforts to improve the mental health and well being of prisoners. In 2016 there were 40,161 incidents of self-harm in prisons and 120 self-inflicted deaths.