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Assess and manage the risks posed by sexual and violent offenders: guidance for the police, prison service and probation trusts.
This circular advises on relevant procedures when courts decide that an adult defendant should be tagged while on bail.
We make sure people serve the sentences and orders handed out by courts, both in prisons and in the community.
Safety in custody statistics cover deaths, self-harm and assaults in prison custody in England and Wales.
Letter from Prisons Minister Andrew Selous to Robert Neill MP, Chairman of the Justice Select Committee regarding smoking in prisons.
Probation caseload, the number of offenders in custody and prison population projections.
A summary of a Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) examining ‘what works’ in interventions to reduce reoffending of young adult offenders.
A summary of what happened to the prison population between 1993 and 2020 and the major factors contributing to the changes.
Pilot evaluation of the Active Risk Management System (ARMS)
Find out how the NOMS graduate programme is structured, the career paths it opens up and the qualities you'll need to secure your place.
Guidance on managing young people in secure training centres and young offender institutions, with restraint only used as a last resort.
A summary of proposals setting out what the Ministry of Justice is doing to make prisons places of safety and reform.
This report provides an analysis on offenders and focussing on equalities.
NOMS service specifications covering: prisoner retail, activity allocation, faith and pastoral care, physical education, and employment, training and skills.
Directory of services currently being commissioned by National Offender Management Service (NOMS) for prospective suppliers.
A compendium of research and analysis on the Offender Assessment System (OASys); studies completed between 2009 and 2013
An outcome evaluation of both the Integrated Domestic Abuse Programme (IDAP) and Community Domestic Violence Programme (CDVP).
Find out about how to plan and manage meetings between offenders and their victims, sometimes called 'restorative justice'.
Latest prison population figures for 2017.
This report by the Extremism Taskforce sets out practical proposals to tackle extremism in the UK.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
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