A training centre at HMP Standford Hill, on the Isle of Sheppey, aims to teach inmates trade skills.

Smell detectors could be installed in criminals’ homes or prison cells to monitor their illegal drug use. The detector, which ...

Last week, the Justice Secretary announced "landmark" sentencing reforms and said they would help cut crime, boost rehabilitation and reduce reoffending.

Charlie Taylor says a "fundamental reorientation" of prisons is the only way to reduce reoffending. ... Prisons must focus on rehabilitation to cut reoffending, says chief inspector. 29 December 2023.

Al-Ghaili believes shifting the focus from punishment to rehabilitation will lower prisoner reoffending rates and “could enable them to reintegrate into society sooner and contribute to the ...

After 14 rehab attempts that were unsuccessful in treating his disease, Washington said the thing that worked was a two-year jail sentence for armed burglary in 2009.

The British government is to rollout the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of sex offenders, as part of a package of measures to reduce the risk of reoffending and alleviate the ...

In a comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness of correctional treatments, Dr Koehler and Professor Friedrich Lösel of Cambridge University and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg synthesised 53 ...

Rather than defining “success” as abandoning criminality, meta-analytic reviews erroneously assume that half of offenders who do not participate in rehab programs recidivate.

But these units are not suitable for successful rehabilitation, and most people are not eligible anyway. ‘Chaotic, sometimes dangerous places’ – why successful rehab for prisoners on remand ...

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