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‘When people with convictions get degrees, everybody wins’
Opinion: We should make higher education accessible for people with convictions, not deter them from applying By Ian D. Marder, Ciara Bracken-Roche, Joe Garrihy, Claire Hamilton, Gemma [...]
‘It’s very hard to see to a loved one, with cuffs on, in prison, because there’s nowhere else for him to go’
Greg is a kind, sensitive man. He has an intellectual disability and pronounced mental health difficulties, and when the services he depended on were removed, everything fell apart, hi [...]
How Prisoners Education Trust is offering vital second chances in Yorkshire: Alan Billings
Thirty or so years ago, a couple of lawyers, who were regular visitors to a London prison, realising that inmates would only reoffend if they left prison unable to find work, resolved [...]
Identifying childhood trauma a key to rehabilitating, reintegrating prison inmates into society
SOLEDAD (KPIX) -- For years, prisons were focused on punishment rather than rehabilitation. But now, a new approach explores the reasons they ended up behind bars in the first place. E [...]
How the Dutch Are Closing Their Prisons
The number of prisoners in the country has halved in a decade and experts say alternative sentencing programs can further decrease the number. UTRECHT, Netherlands – Walking along the [...]
Employers sign up to offer a Fresh Start to ex-offenders
Tim Balcon the CEO of the CITB, has written to construction employers to invite them to take part in a pilot, which will not only offer a job opportunity to an ex-offender but help emp [...]