What do you expect him to do with handful of cash in a world where he is ill-equipped to navigate?
He has 86pounds on him which doesn’t give him enough time to figure things out. With that amount of money, even a person with a degree won’t be able to go 3 days before ending up under a bridge.
Just on a pragmatic level, more needs to be done for newly released prisoners because it will improve rates of recidivism. It’s worth spending money when they’re released in order to prevent much bigger spending when they get locked up again.
Far more focus needs to be on rehabilitation, but it’s painted as being a soft, do-gooder thing to ask for when it is actually the sensible approach. What we’ve been doing for years just isn’t getting results.
Totally agree. I got to visit a prison and see some of the good work that gets done around rehabilitation but more needs to be done and also more needs to be done around prevention. As with health, prevention is much more effective that the cure and way cheaper.
I’m impressed at how well that Steven Quinn can articulate itself.
A lot of investment needs to be put into the whole system, inside and the rehabilitation stages of prisons and prisoners. Understaffing still is a big problem too aswell as stories of the more priveleged prisoners getting a better deal behind bars.