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Movie Alert: On the Trail of The Serpent: the story behind the true crime classic

January 23, 2021 Hennah Kelput 0

Read More Co-author Julie Clarke recalls how researching convicted serial killer Charles Sobhraj became a dangerous and shameful obsession. Movie Alert It was 1977 and my boyfriend and I were working as journalists in New […]

Guidance: Record retention and disposition schedules

The Ministry of Justice uses Record Retention and Disposition Schedules (RRDS) to manage its compliance with the Public Records Acts.
National Statistics: Offender management statistics quarterly: October to December 2023

Detailed quarterly statistics on offenders in custody (including offence groups, sentence lengths and nationalities), and quarterly (and annual calendar year) statistics on prison receptions, prison releases, adjudications, licence recalls and offenders under probation supervision.
Official Statistics: Justice data lab statistics: April 2024

Tailored reports assessing the impact on rehabilitation programmes on reoffending behaviour analysed within the previous quarter, and summary of results to date.
Official Statistics: Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate: Update to December 2023

Safety in the Children and Young People Secure Estate statistics cover assaults, self-harm, use of force, separations, and deaths in the Children and Young People Secure Estate in England and Wales.
Transparency data: Miscarriage of Justice application service (MOJAS) claims Management Information

This publication provides an overview of applications received and decisions made for miscarriage of justice between April 2016 and March 2024.
National Statistics: Restricted Patients Statistics, England and Wales, 2023

An annual publication providing statistics on restricted patients in England and Wales.
Official Statistics: Electronic Monitoring Statistics Publication, March 2024

Covers the use and delivery of electronic tags, including location monitoring tags and alcohol monitoring tags, for England and Wales.
National Statistics: Proven reoffending statistics: April to June 2022

Statistics on reoffending of offenders who were released from custody, received a non-custodial conviction, or a caution.
National Statistics: Safety in custody: quarterly update to December 2023

Quarterly update on deaths, self-harm and assaults in prison custody in England and Wales. Annual detailed data on assaults and self-harm in prison custody.
Transparency data: MOJ: spending over £500 on a GPC 2023

Reports on departmental spending over £500 with a government procurement card (GPC).
News story: Meet the businesses helping get prison leavers in to work

As part of our efforts to reduce crime, fill gaps in the job market and grow the economy, we’re encouraging businesses to recruit more prison leavers.
Press release: 'Big Four' accountancy firm to get prison leavers in to work in crime-cutting drive

Britain's biggest businesses are being urged by the government to recruit prison leavers as part of a national campaign.
Press release: Government backs amendment to better protect victims’ counselling records

New legislation will provide extra protections for victims' counselling notes during criminal investigations.
Press release: Contract awarded for UK’s first all-electric ‘green’ prison

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. 
Guidance: Ministry of Justice: arm’s length bodies framework documents

Framework documents are a core constitutional document of Arm's Length Bodies (ALB) and govern the collaborative relationship between the arm's length body and the sponsor or shareholder department.