Learning and research documents

PPO's response to the Justice Select Committee (JSC)'s Tackling Drugs in Prison Inquiry.

PPO's response to the Justice Select Committee (JSC)'s inquiry into Rehabilitation and Resettlement.

PPO's response to the Justice and Home Affairs Committee (JHAC)'s Inquiry into Prison Culture.

This Policy into Practice publication highlights important learning for frontline officers on their emergency response procedures.

PPO's response to the Independent Sentencing Review 2024/25 call for evidence.

This learning lessons bulletin summarises the learning from PPO investigations into the deaths of those who died within 14 days of release from prison.

This Policy into Practice focuses on some of the important requirements for prisons as set out in the Use of Force Policy Framework and how they should be applied in practice.

PPO response to the Justice Select Committee's Inquiry into future prison population and estate capacity.

This learning lessons bulletin has been prompted by the worrying increase in self-inflicted deaths of prisoners serving Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentences in 2022. The PPO have continued to see self-inflicted deaths of IPP prisoners in 2023.

This report presents the findings from the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman’s (PPO) evaluation of its post-release death investigations pilot.