In this section you can find our annual reports, internal policy statements and external policy and research publications.
This document includes Humankind’s research which is part of the Better Justice Partnership’s research into understanding media narratives.
This document summarises the results of a multi-stage process of research, development and testing, carried out by Future Narratives Lab in 2025 for the Better Justice Partnership. The research aimed to understand more about ways of communicating to increase public understanding of what works to reduce crime.
‘Experiences of ex-service personnel before contact with the criminal justice system’, published in February 2026, is the supplementary report to ‘Ex-service personnel in the criminal justice system’, published in 2024. Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) commissioned Nacro, in partnership with the University Of Northampton (UoN), to carry out research for the reports.
This is the fourth in a series of briefings that examine the steps that can be taken to support people in contact with the criminal justice system to create better futures. This briefing explores the experiences of people who have been subject to electronic monitoring, commonly referred to as ‘tagging’.Â
Nacro’s policy and research team provide evidence in response to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee’s Call for Evidence: Electronic Monitoring, September 2025.
Our response to the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee call for evidence: Prison Culture: Governance, Leadership and Staffing. Our response is based on the views and experiences of the members of Nacro’s Justice ExChange and the wider people we support.
See a copy of our response to Rehabilitation and resettlement: Ending the cycle of reoffending inquiry. We have experience of supporting thousands of people across the criminal justice system (CJS) every year and our commitment to ensuring their voices and experiences are heard.
This report looks at the physical health of people in prison and includes a survey of over a 100 recent prison leavers. The report addresses the impact of imprisonment on physical health, including the impact of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions, lack of purposeful activity and poor quality diets. We examine the problems and barriers to accessing healthcare services, including difficulties in accessing treatment and lengthy waiting lists, missed appointments, issues with medication, feeling ‘unseen’, and issues on transfer between prisons and on release.
Nacro was commissioned by Commonweal Housing to identifies the current challenges prison leavers face accessing stable housing and suitable support and the effect this has on reoffending.
The young people’s views in this report were drawn from an online survey and a series of focus groups that were conducted across Nacro Education centres and our young people’s supported housing services. We received over 240 survey responses from young people aged 14-21, which contained questions across a broad range of areas, including life satisfaction, aspirations for the future, and their views on crime and politics. Discover more.
