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Investment in Prevention

In order to make any substantial difference in terms of those individuals who are re-offenders or those who are first time offenders, we need to be looking at the cycle of the young persons life and in particular where the ideas and beliefs that promote the process of committing crime. Our Giving Back project highlights
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Behaviour is Behaviour

Reminded of this story about 5 years ago and came across it again recently. Habits, we have lots of them yet they can so easy lock us into thinking that the activities we are involved in are having the desired results. The sound of life and death, a struggle of a fly depleting its last
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Adapting to Prison Life

In Society learning is often understood and measured by the ability to memorise facts, read, write, take a test, perform in exams and so forth. Social class, socio-economic status, race and religion, accent and geographical location all bias how we measure a person’s capacity to learn. In an prison population, the ability to read the
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Prison Population Update

The number of prisons in the UK stands at 139, 19 being built since 1995, out of which 7 are privately built and run prisons. Two more have being built with public funds and are managed privately. The population of offenders is divided between; local prisons, remand centres, training prisons, open prisons and youth offender
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BBC Newcastle interview

The interview below was held on BBC Newcastle and was about a range of topics ranging from Do prisons work? and MPs wanting to deny prisoners the right to vote. Dave C was on the show along with the CEO of Nacro.