Citizens Advice Chief Executive David Harker said:'When prisoners start custodial sentences their lives on the outside don’t just grind to a halt. Bills still need to be paid, mortgage payments and rent need to be met, and family and friends have to get on with their lives. Unless these issues are tackled with the help of advice, information and continuing support, the situation in which an offender finds themselves on release can be one of homelessness, relationship breakdown and unmanageable debt. This can affect their chances of successfully rejoining society, and so increase the chances of their re-offending.
Financial stability in the period immediately following release is essential if an ex-prisoner is to resettle successfully into the community and avoid reverting to crime. The first few weeks after release are critical for ex-offenders; but the system is stacked against them. Many find it difficult to sort out practical problems such as benefits, housing and employment. Services can be difficult to access, and take far too long to activate. Too often recently released prisoners are left without any means of support or stable accommodation. As a result, many may feel that they have little option but to return to crime. Advice and support to help them get their affairs in order can play a major role in helping offenders resettle back into the community and break the cycle of re-offending.”
(Financial stability in the period immediately following release is essential if an ex-prisoner is to resettle successfully into the community and avoid reverting to crime. The first few weeks after release are critical for ex-offenders; but the system is stacked against them. Many find it difficult to sort out practical problems such as benefits, housing and employment. Services can be difficult to access, and take far too long to activate. Too often recently released prisoners are left without any means of support or stable accommodation. As a result, many may feel that they have little option but to return to crime. Advice and support to help them get their affairs in order can play a major role in helping offenders resettle back into the community and break the cycle of re-offending.”
Barbarossa is not my real name,
Thu 13 Aug 2009, 16:32,
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Hmm, so basically you HAVE to have a support networkor else you're fucked?
This must come up semi-regularly surely, there must be some sort of support network in place through the prison system :/
Also, thank you!
(This must come up semi-regularly surely, there must be some sort of support network in place through the prison system :/
Also, thank you!
Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions,
Thu 13 Aug 2009, 16:35,
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yus - the National Offender Management Systemalthough its strategy for rehabilitation of criminals seems to concentrate mostly on a faintly Orwellian approach involving 're-education' so that their attitudes to offending change - from what I can gather this takes precedence over any practical help they may be given to sort out their affairs while in prison and after release
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Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus,
Thu 13 Aug 2009, 16:47,
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