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New modern prison cells that can be built and rolled-out at speed in order to boost jail capacity and keep the public safe were unveiled at HMP Norwich yesterday (2 March 2023).
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Minister for Prisons, Parole and Probation writes to the Youth Justice Board with his priorities for the coming year.
First ever ‘Independent Public Advocate’ to launch in England and Wales.
The Secretary of State has appointed Lynn Emslie as Chair of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody.
The name of the UK’s first all-electric prison has been revealed today (27 February 2023) by Prisons Minister Damian Hinds.
Transgender women with male genitalia will no longer be able to be held in mainstream women’s prisons, under new measures coming into force today.
Vulnerable children across England and Wales will be better protected from the damaging impact of forced marriage as the legal age of marriage rises to 18 in England and Wales.
The interest rates were increased for Court Funds Office special and basic accounts on 13 February 2023.
The Lord Chancellor has approved the reappointment of Tom Montagu-Smith KC, Isabel Hitching KC and David Marshall as legally qualified members of the Civil Procedure Rules Committee.
The Lord Chancellor has approved the appointment of 8 Court Examiners for 5 years from 1 March 2023.
Tougher management of most dangerous abusers and new protections for victims.
Nightingale Courts across England and Wales are being kept open for another year to reduce waiting times and deliver swift justice for victims.
Dozens more former police officers and detectives with experience of managing dangerous offenders will be recruited as part of plans to toughen up the parole system.
A further update on work MOJ is doing to respond to the CJEU judgment of November 2018 in O’Brien No.2 and the Supreme Court’s judgment in Miller of December 2019.
Thousands of prisoners are getting clean thanks to a doubling of drug-free wings in jails as the government’s war on addiction steps up a gear.
The Secretary of State for Justice has announced the appointments of Duwayne Brooks OBE and Phillip Bowen as members of the Youth Justice Board.
The Lord Chancellor has approved the appointment of Alan Kershaw as the new Chair of the Legal Services Board for 4 years from 1 April 2023.
Construction firms have pitched up in prisons across England and Wales for the latest major drive to match offenders with jobs in sectors facing skill shortages and cut crime.
Vulnerable victims in up to 4,600 cases involving crimes including sexual abuse and rape will be able to avoid giving their evidence in a full courtroom every year according to new estimates from the Ministry of Justice.
Further information on the changes we are making to our transgender prisoner policy framework.
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