Home > NEWS > Press Releases > 2022 2022 27/05/2022 CJI Chief Inspector's current term extended until November 2024 The Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland, Jacqui Durkin’s current term of office has been extended for a further two years. The announcement was made by the Minister of Justice Naomi Long MLA earlier today. 23/05/2022 CJI publishes 2022-23 Business Plan and Inspection Programme Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJI) has published its annual Business Plan and Inspection Programme for 2022-23 outlining the work the Inspectorate intends to undertake during the financial year. 23/03/2022 Inspectors find quality of court custody facilities in some NI courthouses ‘not fit for purpose'. A new report by Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJI) examining how detainees are held in court custody in Northern Ireland has found the quality of court custody areas in some courthouses are not fit for purpose. 28/02/2022 Greater ambition needed to reduce regime restrictions at Magilligan Prison Leadership and staff at Magilligan Prison have been commended for their efforts to successfully protect prisoners and colleagues during the COVID-19 pandemic while maintaining a regime where time out of cell for prisoners was retained for much of the day. 01/02/2022 Some prisoners in Care and Supervision Units experiencing regimes amounting to solitary confinement An independent review of the operation of Care and Supervision Units in the Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS) led by Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJI) has found some prisoners held there experienced regimes which amounted to solitary confinement and their treatment did not meet the expected United Nations (UN) Standard Minimum Rules.