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"Europe has over 350,000 prisoners housed in gaols across the region. Seventy per cent of them have some form of mental health problem, and a high proportion lack even basic literacy or numeracy skills," says Joe Cullen of the UK's Tavistock Institute, explaining the HERO project, and its aim to help prisoners and reduce the incidence of re-offending.
With some 60 per cent of the prison population likely to re-offend within two years of release, the IST project HERO focused on the problem of how to reduce re-offending levels. To this end the project developed and tested a range of ICT tools designed to tackle two key areas. First, to assist prisoners and prison professionals make more informed decisions about personal health and education whilst in prison. Second, to help offenders improve their preparation for release and for life on the outside."
