Criminal Justice
- HM Prison Service
This site offers information on the work carried out at prisons in England and Wales. The website also features a useful 'Prison Locator' tool.
- Independent Monitoring Board
The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) monitors day-to-day life in prisons or removal centres to ensure that proper standards of care and decency are maintained.
- Ministry of Justice
The Ministry of Justice is the government department charged with managing the country's prison services.
- Nacro Mental Health
Nacro is the leading criminal justice charity in England and Wales. The Mental Health Unit aims to improve responses to defendants and offenders with mental health issues. The site contains up to date information on mental health and offending including discussion forums.
- National Offender Management Service
- National Probation Service
The National Probation Service (NPS) is the law enforcement agency and public authority charged with managing offenders in the community.
- Offender Health
Offender Health is a partnership between the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health which works to improve the standard of health care for offenders. Since April 2006 the responsibility for commissioning healthcare services in prisons has been fully devolved to NHS Primary Care Trusts.
- Prisons and Probations Ombudsman for England and Wales
The Prisons and Probations Ombudsman (PPO) investigates complaints from prisoners, offenders on probation and immigration detainees.
- Youth Justice Board
The Youth Justice Board (YJB) oversees the youth justice system in England and Wales and works to prevent offending and reoffending by children and adolescents under the age of 18.