![]() ![]() In August Boris Johnson announced a £100m programme to crack down on crime in prisons and boost rehabilitation. ![]() The next time someone tells you they have a quick scheme which can transform lives – transform is the word of which you should be particularly suspicious – politely explain that life isn’t that simple.” Politely discourage those who will urge you to believe that they have a six-week to six-month course which can undo the damage of a lifetime. He will add: “Stop fretting about rehabilitation. Indecent, unsafe prisons allow no such growth and further damage those who have to survive there.” “Decent prisons in which prisoners are respected seem to provide a foundation for prisoner self-growth. Instead, the best the prison estate can offer prisoners is an environment where they are treated with “decency and dignity”, he will say. “The things we did to prisoners, the courses we put them on, the involvement of charities, made little or no difference,” he will tell the International Corrections and Prisons Association conference in Buenos Aires.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |