Criminal Justice

  • DSPD Programme

    The DSPD (Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorder) Programme brings together, the Home Office, Department of Health, the Prison Service and the NHS, to deliver new mental health services for people who are or have previously been considered dangerous as a result of severe personality disorder.

  • Health and Social Care in Criminal Justice Programme

    The Health & Social Care in Criminal Justice (HSCCJ) programme is a national programme of work managed by the Care Service Improvement Partnership (CSIP)through their 8 Regional Development Centres. The programme works to improve the range and standard of health and social care services for offenders and others in contact with the Criminal Justice System (CJS), both within prisons and in the community.

  • HM Inspectorate of Prisons

    HM Inspectorate of Prisons provide independent scrutiny of conditions for and treatment of prisoners. Inspection reports for the country's prisons can be found on this site

  • 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

    The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is an executive agency of the National Probation Service and HM Prison Service. The agency used to have its own website but its pages are now to be found on the main Ministry of Justice website. The old NOMS website can be viewed by clicking here.

  • 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.