Alex Chalk, Under Secretary of State for Justice, pledged his full support for strengthening the use of sport in criminal justice at Monday night’s (May 17) All Party Parliamentary Group meeting.

Sports Connect’s work with Novus and HMPPS at Cookham Wood YOI in Kent offers an exciting blueprint for how sport and community partnerships can positively impact on reoffending.

Ahead of his epic four-day world record attempt to raise money to support the Alliance of Sport, David Haze explains how time in prison sparked a passion for sport in criminal justice.

An innovative partnership between Pete Bell’s ‘Step Out Stay Out’ football-based rehabilitation programme and HMP Lowdham Grange looks set to benefit prison leavers and a deprived Nottingham estate.

A new All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sport and Physical Activity in the Criminal Justice System was launched on Monday (March 8), with the Alliance of Sport as its Secretariat.

The Growth Project, which seeks to transform organisational culture in prisons, is set to expand into HMP Hewell and HMP Foston Hall in 2021.

Pete Bell, founder of the Step Out Stay Out football-based rehabilitation project, is planning a resettlement programme to help reduce reoffending among prison leavers.

“A team effort” is how Jamie Grundy describes the successful campaign to get Prescoed FC – the only prison football team in Wales – reinstated into the Gwent League. 

The positive effects of yoga within criminal justice are being recognised by practitioners and researchers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Novus teamed up with England Squash to deliver a highly successful new initiative at Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre in Warwickshire.