Friday, November 17, 2006

Breaking the reoffending cycle / BBC Radio 4's Law in Action, 14 Nov 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6148056.stm
Mukul Devichand
"From teaching criminals gardening to making violent offenders apologise to their victims, it seems almost everything has been tried to make criminals go straight. How do you break a cycle of revolving prison doors? Preventing criminals reoffending is hard. Around two-thirds of prisoners continue to go back to crime within two years of being released and the figure remains stubbornly high despite several measures to improve the situation."
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