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So much of day to day life is not powered by technology, but what happens if you’ve been behind bars for years? It’s time prisoners better prepared inmates for life once they’ve served their time.
With a series of high-profile cases in the news, parole is back in the spotlight. Let’s unpack some of the most common misconceptions about what parole really means.
A major new report identifies how a ‘trauma-informed’ justice system would acknowledge and act on the deprivation and mental health problems experienced by so many offenders.
Understaffing and budget cuts mean prisoners often struggle to complete rehab programmes, even when they want to. ACT’s Parole Amendment Bill risks having the opposite of its intended effect.
Receiving visitors while behind bars was a raft of benefits, but people have reported many barriers. It must be made easier to help drive down recidivism rates.
The imposition of fines and fees on people unable to pay has had a disproportionate impact on Black and Latino communities.
People who get an education while serving time are less likely to return to prison and more likely to enter the job market, an analysis finds.
Inmates who are mothers tend to be accused of being bad parents.
Our research finds at-risk youth in north Queensland wanted to feel safe and included in the community, but often felt the opposite.
Only 218 programs offer credit-bearing college programs in prison. That’s about to change.
Most people leaving prison face an uphill battle of service navigation that is too often deficit-focused, intentionally seeking out the failures of the individual and centred on punitive responses.
Myles Sanderson was given statutory release from prison prior to a stabbing rampage that left 10 people dead. But a legal expert says his case is unrepresentative of how people behave on this form of release.
Finding stable housing is one of the biggest challenges facing prison leavers. Access to public housing has been found to flatten the curve on rates of recidivism.
Violent crime causes untold harm and anger is known to fuel violence. But recent research suggests that the way anger and crime tie together in youth is a bit more complicated than expected.
People who have had interactions with the criminal justice system as defendants continue to face barriers, even after paying their debt to society.
China has been very successful at crime control while South Africa has neglected rehabilitation and failed dismally at resettling ex-offenders.
Prisons seem an unlikely source of outstanding university students, but it is. What’s more, those who have done such study are much less likely to reoffend when they get out.
Christopher Havens is a prison inmate serving time for murder. He’s also a mathematics whiz who’s advocating for more math in prison as a way to improve the chances of prisoners after release.
Reopening prison farms is a great opportunity for Correctional Service of Canada to become a leader in innovative rehabilitation and reintegration. But a goat dairy operation isn’t the way.
Top contributors
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Research fellow, North-West University
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Professor of Health Equity, Curtin University
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Professor of Criminology, Australian National University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Tasmania
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Director - Centre for Social Impact
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Professor of Criminology, University of Bath
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Senior research fellow at the Institute for Security Studies and research associate, Durban University of Technology
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Academic Director/ Clinical Ethicist, Children’s Bioethics Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and Associate Professor in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Sydney Executive Plus, University of Sydney
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Professor of Social Work; Leneen Forde Chair in Child & Family Research, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Ontario
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PhD Researcher, Menzies School of Health Research
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiolgy, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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Associate Professor of Statistics, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Casual Academic, UNSW Sydney
