'Punishing costs: How locking up children is making Britain less safe' is a new report from the Social Economics Foundation, which presents new results on the full cost to society of the use of prisons. It outlines a policy to change the pattern of public spending for a safer and… Read more
A new report by the National Audit Office in the UK highlights the social and economic cost of short sentences. Read more
The reduction of the prison population is the focus of two US reports. Read more
A report released in NI today examines the Probation Board's Community Service schemes. Read more
A new report from the Criminal Justice Inspectorate of Northern Ireland follows the treatment of people with mental health problems through the criminal justice system, starting with the police, moving through prosecution and the courts and ending up with prisons and probation. Read more
A new report by the cross-party Home Affairs Committee has called on the government to place more emphasis on early intervention when it comes to dealing with potential young offenders. Read more
Alliance leader and the man tipped for the North's justice post, David Ford, makes promising noises about alternatives to prison. Read more
