James Timpson (Prisons Minister) has been quietly working to build up a network of firms to support his new regional employment councils that will focus on helping ex-offenders (prisoners) into jobs with sympathetic employers as a strategy to reduce re-offending.... a strategy reflecting his now experience or employing ex-prisoners at Timpson's.
It looks like he's tried to avoid ever-day politics & focussed on what he was appointed to do... not such a bad idea!
#prison #rehabilitation
h/t FT
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 I only wish that more people in government had similar passion to do better and improve things.
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 @junesim63 Except he was appointed to reduce the size of the prison population - which is stated Labour policy, & supposedly a priority, However, this is contradicted by such moves as Labour's increase in the sentencing powers of magistrates, which will increase the size of the prison population, when our prisons are already full to bursting, many of them are grievously insanitary, & all of them are woefully understaffed.
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Well, here we hit on the division of Labour (pun intended); if I was to defend Timpson, my guess is the issues you raise are in the remit of the Justice Ministry, and while Timpson may be suggesting these things don't help, my guess is he'll be told he's not a politician & to get on with the bits he's good at - which pragmatically seems to be what's happening
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John_Loader
In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 In the USA some prisonstrain low risk prisoners in fire fighting and hundreds have been sent to the Californian fires
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Yes, I've seen that mentioned before; which is an interesting way of rehabilitating prisoners, unless they're being used as expendable fire-fodder, of course
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