Saturday, July 29, 2006

Prisoner Survey Reveals Resettlement Failings / Inside Time, July 2006

http://www.insidetime.org/July_06_Articles/surveyresults.htm
"The Inside Time Prisoner Survey 2006 reveals a worrying lack of provision for the resettlement of prisoners before and after release. At a time when the re-offending rate for adult prisoners is nearly 70 per cent, and prisons have never been so full, the Inside Time Survey shows that the Government’s National Offender Management Service (NOMS), which is supposed to coordinate prison, probation and rehabilitation programmes and services, is failing the overwhelming majority of prisoners. The Prisoner Survey 2006 also indicates that it is not tough prison regimes that are needed so much as effective and consistent regimes both inside and outside prison."