Open call for evidence

Independent Sentencing Review 2024 to 2025

From:: Ministry of Justice
Published: 14 November 2024
Last updated: 15 November 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England and Wales

Call for evidence description

The Independent Sentencing Review is seeking evidence to help the development of recommendations to ensure we are never again in a position where the country has more prisoners than prison places, and the government is forced to rely on the emergency release of prisoners.

The Panel is seeking evidence across 7 themes:

History and trends in sentencing
The structure of sentencing
The use of technology within sentencing
Community sentences
Custodial sentences
The progression of custodial sentences
The individual needs of victims and offenders

The Panel welcomes responses from all who have an interest in this area. The Panel encourages all those responding to the call for evidence to be ambitious, and welcomes any ideas which challenge current thinking, are innovative, or which spotlight best practice and how it can be extended.

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