Achievable Ways To Rehabilitate Criminals

By Elsa English


Consistent high rates of re offending have resulted to radical overhaul as nearly half of the total ex prisoner re-offend within the first twelve months. The figure reaches to fifty eight percent for those serving a term of less than a year. The new proposal drafted that is set to rehabilitate criminals entails the following and is expected to bring down the rate of re-offenses.

Plans which are underway in the bid to transform rehabilitation focus on new and streamlined public sector that will be tasked in ensuring the public is safe from dangerous and high risk offenders. The private and voluntary organizations are to work hand in hand on eliminating the cycle of criminal justice system by tackling risk offenders of lower caliber. The first time offenders and those serving for less than a year will be subject to tailored rehab and compulsory supervision once released from prison.

Mentors are provided by the proposal and they will be tasked to meet with the wrongdoers once they are released. The ex-convicts are to be given required support in ensuring their daily aspects of life run smoothly. Some of the kind of help given to them include, restoring them by providing aid in job seeking and shelter, overcoming alcohol, drugs and intoxicants including monitoring of literacy problems.

Releasing of ex-convicts back into the general public with only a small amount of cash and still fail to provide other necessary aid does nothing to help counter the problem. This results to lack of change in the high numbers of jail leavers committing crimes repeatedly. Reading from the same old script and still hold hopes for positive changes therefore becomes insensible.

We are well aware of the existence of expertise and wealth across the private, public and voluntary sectors. We are supposed to unlock this potential so that we can in the long run commence to tackle down the stubbornly high rates of re-offending. The private and voluntary sectors will get invitation to bid with each contract being awarded based on innovation and best value in tackling re-offending.

The proposal sets to see that persons who get sentenced into jails or probation are punished adequately while getting assistance to convert from doing wrongs for good. It will reflect to spending the taxpayers money on any tasks in the process of slashing down crime rates. The public segment is expected to maintain the chief responsibility of protecting the general public in all situations.

This new approach will oversee to that the private providers get paid in full only on condition that they are able to reduce re-offending rates in their areas. It will be based on payment by results contract. These proposals are aimed at driving advanced innovations and efficiency through the system of criminal justice. An amount of money is also to be offered to voluntary and communal sector groups in order to ensure they get ready to commence bidding for services.

The above elements in the set proposals have been analyzed and have been deemed fit to help in tackling the rate of re-offense. They are well set in a way that will ensure the ex-convict integrates properly into the society and be on a better position to find a genuine source of livelihood.




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