"To the world Benjamin was the renowned writer, poet, human rights activist and more'. To us, his family, he was also all of these things, but most importantly he was family."

A new Learning Lessons bulletin from the Prisons & Probation Ombudsman summarises research from investigations where a prisoner’s death was caused by epilepsy or was diagnosed with epilepsy.

As part of Unjust Deaths, INQUEST have brought together a group of bereaved people, engaged artists, campaigners, journalists and others to form a Memorialisation Working Group.

Four more prisoners serving Public Protection sentences have taken their own lives, taking the number to 94. Another 37 released IPPs took their own lives in the five years to 2024.

New provisions have come into force to end Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences, described as the ‘single greatest stain on the criminal justice system’.

Justice secretary Shabana Mahmood has set out plans to slash the number of women that are going to jail, and ultimately to close women’s prisons amid an overcrowding crisis.

In a response to the latest inspection of Brixton Prison, prison reform charity the Howard League have criticised the prison for locking men up "for hours on end’ in ‘dirty overcrowded cells’.

A new issue of the Justice Gap magazine PROOF is out, examining our broken criminal appeals system. PROOF features a series of articles on a number of shocking cases.

In order to maximise how we use our limited financial and human resources, we'll be introducing new systems in relation to our operations, grants and partnerships.

BLMUK started in 2016 as a network of activists who wanted to respond to escalating racist violence from the British state. Until 2020, their previous efforts raised £8,000.

15 years after Ken Fero’s ground-breaking film Injustice, which examined deaths in police custody, comes a compelling follow-up that feels as timely as ever.