MPs will examine violence, education and mental health care across the youth secure estate, and are inviting evidence from the public and from people in prison.
Ministers have fully accepted eight of the Justice Select Committee’s 29 recommendations on drugs in prisons, rejecting two and partially accepting the other 19.
Prisoners will produce more kit for the Ministry of Defence as the UK raises military spending, while trials at five Category C prisons test a 31-hour working week.
The Independent Monitoring Boards have pulled a contested plan to limit monitors' visits and complaint work, within a week of their national chair resigning for personal reasons.
