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

California prison rehab program fails to keep criminals from reoffending, audit finds ... Its annual budget for rehabilitation has also increased 27 percent in five years, ...

Unfortunately, rehabilitation for prisoners is costly, and it is often questioned whether the results outweigh the price. In 2012, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation received ...

Education, training and rehabilitation need to become the primary focus of jails, the chief inspector of prisons in England and Wales has said. Charlie Taylor told the BBC that a "fundamental ...

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

One in four criminals went straight back to crime and committed almost 500,000 offences between them last year, figures have shown.

Compounding the challenge is the increasing number of inmates, particularly foreign nationals, and the rising cost of food ...

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

Hon Judith Collins Minister of Corrections 6 July 2011 . Drivers of Crime: Prisoner rehab boost aims to cut reoffending. Doubling the number of prisoners receiving drug and alcohol rehabilitation ...

California state prisons are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on rehabilitation, but an audit finds that a key program does not appear to curb recidivism among CDCR inmates.

According to the Charles Koch Institute, there are over 1.5 million individuals housed in American prisons, with over 600,000 people released from prison each year. However, the rate of reoffense is ...

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