http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3573664a6160,00.htmlMARTIN KAY
"Prison bosses have admitted major failings in their $40 million-a-year rehabilitation programmes, with inmates on some courses more likely to be jailed again than those who do not undergo them. Figures showed prisoners on one programme in 2003-04 had a reimprisonment rate that was six percentage points higher than those who did not enrol.
The 100-hour programme was designed to change the attitudes and behaviour that led to inmates' offending.
The figures for offenders on community-based sentences who underwent the same course showed their reoffending and imprisonment or reimprisonment rates were respectively nine and four points higher than people who did not undergo it. Dept. of Corrections was so concerned at the reoffending and reimprisonment rates in some 'behaviour' programmes, it set up a unit to overhaul them. "
