Suzy Lamplugh Trust @suzylamplughtrust.bsky.social Our mission is to reduce the risk of violence and aggression through campaigning, education and support. We manage @StalkingHelplineUK.
Interactions signify interest not endorsement.
Charity no: 802567
Bar Standards Board @barstandardsboard.bsky.social We regulate the Bar in England & Wales in the public interest. If you wish to contact us, please go to http://barstandardsboard.org.uk
School of Criminal Justice @runscj.bsky.social Official Bluesky of the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
Justice and Home Affairs Committee @lordsjhacom.bsky.social News and information from the House of Lords committee considering issues relating to justice and home affairs.
@alisonliebling.bsky.social @alisonliebling.bsky.social
Journal of Political Science Education @jpseeditors.bsky.social
Jonny Mood - National Audit Office @jonnymood.bsky.social Director at National Audit Office (https://bsky.app/profile/nao.org.uk) leading value for money work in justice sector. Improving public services through insights into public spending, performance, delivery, with interests in strategy and knowledge sharing
Alex Norris MP @alexjjnorris.bsky.social Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Nottingham North and Kimberley | Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
Jason Billenness-Clarke @jason-b-c.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University | Former Prison Officer, Interventions Facilitator, and Police Officer (firearms) | Gay 🏳️🌈 Autistic ♾️ | Penology, prison reform, social justice, public criminology | Views are my own.
Children Head and Seen @childrenhands.bsky.social Charity supporting children & families with a parent in prison in their own communities.
https://www.justgiving.com/childrenheard-seen
Virtual Criminal Law Group @vclg.bsky.social The Virtual Criminal Law Group is an online academic discussion group for criminal law broadly construed, founded in April 2020 and co-organised by Scotland-based criminal law scholars. Write to vclgscotland@gmail.com to join our mailing list!
Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development @acjrd.bsky.social Informing the collaborative development of effective evidence-based policy and practice in criminal justice
https://www.acjrd.ie/
Jon Bebb @jonbebb.bsky.social
Alice @armille.bsky.social Yorkshire • ex prison teacher now in HE • a labrador's snack-wench • truly inclusive education, disability, theology, collective liberation, social justice, rugby & good food for all • trans rights are human rights • she/her
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
European Research Center for Social Development @social.npo.one We do Research and Policy Recommendation on the Future of Work, Sustainable Agriculture, Economic Development, and Sustainable Building
John Lister @maabonnylad.bsky.social Music is love
HM Inspectorate of Probation @hmiprobation.bsky.social HM Inspectorate of Probation is the independent inspector of youth justice and probation services in England and Wales.
Trapped: The IPP Prisoner Scandal @trapped-ipps.bsky.social Podcast charting the IPP Prisoner Scandal #IPPScandal - listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever to get your pods
Listen link 🎧 https://podfollow.com/1689277181
Nesta @nestauk.bsky.social We are Nesta, the research and innovation foundation. We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions across the innovation lifecycle. linktr.ee/Nesta_uk
Independent Monitoring Boards @i-m-b.bsky.social IMB members are the eyes and ears of the public, appointed by ministers to perform a vital task: independent monitoring of prisons and immigration detention.
the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social The Work and Us is an inside/outside participatory research project, that supports imprisoned people in conducting social movement research.
Visit us as theworkandus.com
brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social senior editor & researcher @prisonpolicy.org.
Ethical Property @ethicalproperty.co.uk Creating workspace for changemakers since 1998.
ethicalproperty.co.uk
British Society of Criminology @britishcriminology.bsky.social
Mark O'Mahony @themarkages.bsky.social Policy Manager at Prisoners' Education Trust @prisonersed.bsky.social and youth club trustee. Previously children's social care policy. Drinks coffee, eats cake, sings in choirs, usually in that order.
Alex Sutherland @criminologist.bsky.social Criminology, public policy, research and experiments
https://sites.google.com/researchdesign.uk/alexsutherland
Newest paper https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-025-09726-0
Jessica Hill @jessjanehill.bsky.social Commissioning and investigations editor for FE Week
Lewis Simpson @drlewissimpson.bsky.social Sociologist/Criminologist interesting in prisons, prison policy, and prison inspection. Senior Lecture at Leeds Beckett University.
Kevin Drakulich @drakulich.bsky.social Sociologist, Criminologist. Usually online to learn about new research.
William Wood @woodwi.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University.
Personal account/views
https://experts.griffith.edu.au/9738-william-wood
Shane Chowen @ukshane.bsky.social Editor at FE Week - reporting on further education, skills and apprenticeships. Story tips: shane.chowen@feweek.co.uk
Scottish Community Mediation Centre @sacromediation.bsky.social As one of Scotland’s leading providers of mediation training, we can help you to become a qualified and accredited mediator. For over 20 years we have helped organisations across Scotland, empowering their staff to find better solutions to conflict.
Jamie Grundy @jamiegrundy.bsky.social Football, music, literature, pies. Not necessarily in that order.
https://linktr.ee/jamiegrundy
The Welcome Directory @welcome-directory.bsky.social Charity organisation empowering faith and belief communities to welcome people leaving prison.
Ransom Publishing @ransombooks.bsky.social A publisher of specialist books and teaching resources to unlock literacy (and a love of reading) – regardless of a learner’s current age, ability or attitude.
Lifelong Learning Platform @lllplatform.eu We gather and convey the voices of 40+ networks active in education and training at EU and international level 🇪🇺 #LifelongLearning
Hear Me Out @hearmeoutmusic.bsky.social We run music workshops in UK immigration detention centres & asylum hotels to release the words, music, and life stories of the people held inside.
https://linktr.ee/hearmeoutmusic
Army Benevolent Fund @armybenevolentfund.bsky.social The official account of the British Army's national charity. Here for soldiers, for life, since 1944 💂.
Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social Ancient philosopher on either construal. Also, Philosophy in Prison www.philosophyinprison.com
Philosophy in Prison @philosophyinprison.bsky.social www.philosophyinprison.com
We do philosophy with anyone in prison no matter what
experience they have of education.
Stirling Criminology @stirunicriminology.bsky.social Account for the #Criminology team at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK. #CrimSky #AcademicSky
Convict Criminology at Westminster @ccatwestminster.bsky.social Convict Criminology at Westminster is an academic research community and social project. We are a collective of academics with and without prison experience at the University of Westminster, collaborating on research and delivering HE prison projects.
St Giles @stgilestrust.bsky.social Turning Pasts Into Futures
A charity working across the UK using real-life past experiences to provide advice, training and support to people facing challenges today.
https://sprout.link/st_giles_trust
Dr Jo Easton @eastonjoey.bsky.social Human Rights activist. She/her. Leads on policy work @unlockcharity.
Views very much my own. Except when I nicked them from my betters.
Arsenal supporter.
The Bar Council @thebarcouncil.bsky.social Representing and supporting the 18,000 practising barristers in England and Wales.
www.barcouncil.org.uk
FCHEP @fchep.bsky.social Prison Education | Re-Entry Resources | Florida Based | Higher Education | Prison Reform | End Mass Incarceration
linktr.ee/fchep_
The Foundry @aplaceforchange.co.uk Social Justice and Human Rights Centre at the heart of Vauxhall, London.
Office, conference, and community space for changemakers.
Managed by @ethicalproperty.co.uk
aplaceforchange.co.uk
Kate Herrity @kateherrity.bsky.social Criminologist with a focus on the sensory and ethnography in prisons. Also running @SensoryPenalities to share exciting new material from www.sensorycriminology.com Author of Sound, Order and Survival in Prison. All about supportive academia
Clinks @clinks-charity.bsky.social Supporting the voluntary sector working in the criminal justice system - https://www.clinks.org
Clinks is currently in the process of establishing its Blue Sky account and will be deactivating its X account in due course. Please do follow us here.
Fiona Measham @fmeasham.bsky.social * Chair in Criminology, University of Liverpool
* Founder, The Loop @theloopuk.bsky.social & The Loop Australia
* Yoga & meditation instructor, Yoga Alliance Professionals
* Manchester, UK
* Also @FMeasham on X
Sefydliad Dysgu a Gwaith | Learning and Work Institute @learnworkcymru.bsky.social Our vision is for a fair and prosperous society where learning and work enable everyone to realise their potential.
https://linktr.ee/LearnWorkWales
The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com 🗞️ The best of our journalism
👉 https://www.thetimes.com/
Justice Futures @justice-futures.bsky.social We use transformative practices to energise and empower people, in the UK and globally, to explore and evolve future approaches to crime and justice by seeing, thinking and doing differently.
@coracle-inside.bsky.social @coracle-inside.bsky.social
Inns of Court College of Advocacy @icca.ac.uk Educational arm of the Council of the Inns of Court delivering the ICCA Bar Course and Post Qualification Training for the practising Bar
CharityComms @charitycomms.bsky.social CharityComms is the membership network for communications professionals working in and with UK charities. Find out more about us and our membership at www.charitycomms.org.uk
Penal Reform International @penalreformint.bsky.social We develop fair and effective criminal justice through practical programmes and systemic reform globally.
London’s Victims’ Commissioner @ldnvictimscomm.bsky.social London's Victims' Commissioner - Andrea Simon - addresses barriers to justice and support to help improve victims' experiences.
In emergency call 999 & non-emergency call 101.
The Prison Phoenix Trust @prisonphoenix.bsky.social Bringing yoga and meditation into prisons in the UK and Ireland since 1988. For rehabilitation, healing and hope.
Learning and Work Institute @learnworkuk.bsky.social We are an independent policy and research organisation focused on lifelong learning and better work.
Stay informed. Be involved. Keep engaged. https://linktr.ee/learnworkuk?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=48ff6019-3c2a-461c-9da1-dce7834844f2
The Open University @openuniversity.bsky.social Official account for The Open University.
Open to people, places, methods and ideas. The Open University provides high-quality university education to all.
Tag us or use #OpenUniversity
Eoin Guilfoyle @eoinguilfoyle.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Brunel University of London. Research: sentencing and non-custodial sanctions
Zahid Mubarek Trust @zahidmubarektrust.bsky.social
Esther Chesterman @estherchesterman.bsky.social Chief Executive Officer at National Extension College
Food Matters @foodmattersorg.bsky.social Empowering people to act at every level to improve the food system, because fairer food improves the health of people and the planet 🍎👨🌾🌍
https://linktr.ee/foodmattersorg
Dr Vicky Heap @drvickyheap.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, Fellow of the Sheffield Institute for Policy Studies and SFHEA. Interests: ASB, victims, policy, methods. ‘Mixed Methods in Criminology’: https://bit.ly/2Fbw5St
Doing What Really Matters @dwrm.bsky.social Everything we do is about education in its broadest sense. Education enables us all to fully engage with the world around us and to be active and compassionate citizens.
We support people in prison with their studies.
www.dwrm.org.uk
Centre for Study of Crime, Criminalisation & Social Exclusion @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation & Social Exclusion (CCSE) at Liverpool John Moores University @ljmuofficial.bsky.social
http://ccseljmu.wordpress.com
Co-Directors: Will McGowan and Lisa White
(Previously at https://x.com/ccse_ljmu)
Eppie Sprung @eppiesprung.bsky.social Founder of @nextchapterscotland.org.uk so lots of posts will relate to the criminal justice system. Author of ‘Here, with you’.
Passionate about birth rights, parenting, literature, music, inclusion, diversity, human rights.
Own views etc
Penny East @pennyeast.bsky.social Chief Executive at the Fawcett Society
Want to join Fawcett in the fight for equality? Become a member
fawcettsociety.org.uk/join-fawcett-membership
Danny Whiting @drdannywhiting.bsky.social Clinical Associate Professor in Forensic Psychiatry | @institutemh.org.uk @uniofnottingham.bsky.social | Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist | NottsHC
Forensic Research Nottingham: shorturl.at/cxbrt
NIHR CORAS study: shorturl.at/AlTnW
Fine Cell Work @finecellwork.bsky.social UK charity rebuilding the lives of people in prison and prison leavers through the transformative power of needlework, one stitch at a time 🪡 www.finecellwork.co.uk
Oysho Royal Parks Half Marathon @royalparkshalf.bsky.social An iconic and picturesque half marathon through four of London's Royal Parks.
11 October 2026.
John Howard Society of Canada @johnhowardcanada.bsky.social Promoting our blog - johnhoward.ca/category/blog - with more than 250 posts since 2017 on criminal justice issues in Canada.
Big Ideas @big-ideas-org.bsky.social Big Ideas is a social impact agency, founded in 2015. From chemistry to commemoration, social justice is at the heart of our work.
Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social The bread is mouldy and the circus has low attendance - justice reform - she/her
Andy Aitchison @andyaitchison.bsky.social Freelance documentary #photographer, working since 1991. Covering most subjects, Climate solutions, Unions, Campaigns, Social & Criminal Justice, specialise in photographing in UK prisons. Visit my website: www.andyaitchison.uk for more.
Criminology & Social Justice Research Cluster @ Strathclyde @crimsocjust.bsky.social We are the Criminology & Social Justice Research Cluster, Department of Social Work & Social Policy at Strathclyde University, and a partner in http://sccjr.ac.uk
Rona Mackay MSP @ronamackaysnp.bsky.social SNP MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden
Irish Penal Reform Trust @irishpenalreform.bsky.social Respect for rights in the penal system with prison as a last resort.
| Reg. Charity No. 20029562 |
www.iprt.ie
StandOut @standoutprogrammes.bsky.social We empower people to make positive change, realise their potential, and rebuild their lives after prison.
Unlock Drama @unlockdrama.bsky.social Award Winning Unlock Drama delivers rehabilitation projects through Applied Theatre in prisons and the community: www.unlockdrama.com
#PrisonTheatre #Rehabilitation #AppliedTheatre #PrisonReform #ReducingReoffending #ArtsInPrison #UnlockDrama
Russell Sandberg @sandbergrlaw.bsky.social Professor of Law at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Writes on Legal History & Law and Religion with focus on marriage law and education law reform.
No DMs - please email SandbergR@cf.ac.uk
https://linktr.ee/sandbergrlaw
BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.
Find out more: booktrust.org.uk
Pact @prisonadvice.bsky.social Pact is a pioneering national charity that supports prisoners, people with convictions, and their families. We build stronger families and safer communities across England & Wales.
Prison Reading Groups @prg-uk.bsky.social Prison Reading Groups is part of charity, Give a Book. We supply books to over 110 reading groups in over 80 prisons.
neurodiversikey® @neurodiversikey.com 🔑 Understanding Unlocked🔓
🏆 Multi-award-winning non-profit dedicated to neurodiversity, law, and justice.
neurodiversikey.com
Unlocked Graduates @unlockedgrads.bsky.social Unlocked Graduates exists to break cycles of reoffending. Our award-winning, two-year graduate leadership development programme is inspiring, recruiting and training the next generation of prison leaders.
https://unlockedgrads.org.uk/
Lizzy Jewell @lizzyjewell.bsky.social Head of communications and engagement at Working Chance
Kirstin Anderson @kir-anderson.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University. I'm interested in education in prisons, arts and justice, public health and criminal justice and prison abolition. Ask me about prisoner made magazines.(Embroidery image in banner by Sarah K. Benning)
Working Chance @workingchance.bsky.social Pioneering charity supporting women with convictions to find hope, purpose and financial independence through employment.
🌐 workingchance.org
Birth Companions @birthcompanions.bsky.social Birth Companions is a national charity delivering better care, equity and justice for pregnant women, mothers and babies. 30 years of supporting women with kindness, love and compassion.
www.birthcompanions.org.uk
Sarah Burwood @sarahbur.bsky.social West Midlands Health & Justice Public Health lead, NHSE Midlands.
NPC @thinknpc.bsky.social We are the think tank and consultancy for the impact sector. Sign up to our newsletter: https://www.thinknpc.org/newsletter-signup/
The WEA @weaadulted.bsky.social A national educational charity with a mission to bring lifelong learning within reach of everyone who needs it, fighting inequality and promoting social justice.
Prof Karen Slade @drsladeontherun.bsky.social Professor of forensic psychology @Nottingham Trent Uni passionate about developing better systems, policies, practices & research for suicide and mortality prevention & dual harm in criminal justice and emergency services. Also found running long distances
Mary-Louise Corr @mlcorr.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Criminology, Queen's University Belfast & Centre for Children's Rights. Youth Justice, Youth Homelessness, Domestic Violence, Youth, Narrative Research