The Alliance of Sport is proud to announce the launch of the Taskforce on Physical Activity and Sport in the Criminal Justice System.

A football festival to divert young people away from gangs and petty crime is to be held on Nottingham’s Clifton estate, supported by Ministers and the local tram network.

The Alliance of Sport in Criminal Justice is offering its Community of Practice the chance to get involved in a new initiative to deliver personal wellbeing support to prison leavers.

The benefits of surfing for people with mental health issues are well documented, and now one coach in South Wales is using the waves to help resettle former prison residents back in the community.

DIVERT Lancashire, a project to cut reoffending rates which involves the community trusts of Lancashire's professional football clubs, is set to kick off in earnest.

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.

Alliance of Sport Co-Founder and Chief Executive, James Mapstone, will be speaking on Monday morning at the 14th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.

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

The Alliance of Sport and Professor Rosie Meek are to lead a new research project with the Thailand Institute of Justice compiling best practice for using sport in youth crime prevention.

The Alliance of Sport was honoured to travel to Thailand to participate in the Expert Group meeting of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

When Nick Burke finished his second spell in prison he was determined never to return, and to help people in his underprivileged area of Salford avoid the pitfalls of crime. Read how he did it.