Those sentenced include dangerous attackers, sexual predators who targeted children, organised drug dealers and repeat offenders whose crimes had a major impact on victims and communities.
The investigations behind the cases range from complex organised crime operations to frontline arrests linked to drugs, domestic abuse and sexual offences.
This gallery brings together the faces of 34 criminals jailed so far this year:
25. Florin Ajudanu and Ruslans Stromanis
Florin Ajudanu (L) and Ruslans Stromanis (R), 41, of Blackburn, were jailed for four years and two years and three months respectively at Preston Crown Court after police shut down a crack cocaine and heroin drugs line operating in Blackburn. | Lancashire Police
26. Bo Yang
Bo Yang, 41, of Sheffield, was jailed for 18 years with a further five years on extended licence at Preston Crown Court after carrying out a five-hour rape and knife attack on a woman in Burnley. He will be deported after release. | Lancashire Police
27. Julia Watson
Julia Watson, 61, of Leyland, was jailed for four months after smuggling drugs worth up to £95,000 into HMP Garth by hiding them inside a dishwasher while working as a prison officer. | Lancashire Police
28. Jane Littler
Jane Littler, 31, of Chorley, was jailed for five and a half years at Preston Crown Court after supplying drugs and prohibited items to inmates at HMP Garth and engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a prisoner. | NW Rocu Photo: NW Rocu
29. Stuart Williams
Stuart Williams, 57, formerly of Moore Street, Blackpool, was jailed for 12 years at Preston Crown Court after being found guilty of 17 sexual offences, including crimes against children. He was caught after messaging people he believed were 12 and 13-year-old girls online, later found to be police officers, and investigators also found Category B and C indecent images of children on his phones; further historic offences were reported in Penwortham and Lytham, including one committed while he worked as a school caretaker. | Lancashire Police
30. Frankie Taylor and James Kiely
James Kiely, 30, and Frankie Taylor, 32, who headed an East Lancashire organised crime group, were among 19 people sentenced to a combined total of more than 79 years at Burnley Crown Court after Operation Vinci uncovered a conspiracy to supply cocaine and cannabis between December 2020 and July 2024. Kiely, of Bacup, was jailed for 15 years and three months, while his lieutenant Taylor, of Waterfoot, received 11 years and nine months, with other gang members handed prison terms and some given community sentences. | Lancashire Police