Prison is an expensive way of making people worse – Roger Graef OBE, CEO of Films of Record and ambassador of Make Justice Work
Roger Graef OBE, is CEO of Films of Record, an award winning production company and ambassador of Make Justice Work.
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The importance of rehabilitation – by Simon Woodroffe OBE, Ambassador for Make Justice Work
Simon is the founder of YO! Brand, including YO!Sushi, YOTEL, YO! Zone, and YO! Foundation, which he set up to support various charitable causes that are important to him. He is also an ambassador of Make Justice Work.
“For those with illiterate and dysfunctional backgrounds turning to crime is a reasonable and logical means to survive. Today we have the means to turn those people’s lives around and it makes simple business sense to do that .
Just 50 years from now our children’s children will look back at the way we imprison without rehabilitation with the same sense of injustice as we now look back at debtors prisons of the 18th century.
In business we know that 95% training , empowering and carrot and 5% punishment and stick brings the best results – it’s time we took that logic and experience to rehabilitation and prison.”
We need to move to non custodial sentences with adequate support – Tony Cann ambassador of Make Justice Work
Tony Cann is a trustee of the Ruskin Foundation and an ambassador of Make Justice Work.
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Women succeed on community sentences – Joy Doal ambassador for Make Justice Work.
Joy Doal is the project manager of the Anawim Project, a women’s centre in Birmingham that helps women in prostitution, victims of domestic violence and women who are in and out of prison. She is also an ambassador for Make Justice Work.
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We need to ensure that we tackle the current problems within our society head on.
Baroness Stedman Scott (Debbie Scott) is the CEO Tomorrow’s People Trust and an ambassador for Make Justice Work.
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We need to get sentencing right
Fay Selvan is CEO of The Big Life group of social businesses and charities which works across the north of England. The group deliver a range of services and opportunities to the most excluded people, including The Big Issue in the North, primary care and mental health services, family intervention, employment and supported housing.
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Community Sentences have a better track record in reducing reoffending
When someone offends the penalty should be proportionate the public should be protected and the offender should offer restitution. It is in society’s own interest that the offender should not offend again. It is also in the interests of the offender.
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Education and Community Sentences
Make Justice Work’ is arguing for greater use of community sentences as a better alternative than short prison sentences. I agree – which is why I’m an ambassador for the campaign, along with many others. But my focus is primarily on custody, because the charity of which I’m director largely works inside prison, so my reason for agreeing is slightly different.
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Rioting in Britain – A Criminal Justice System Out of Control?
The below are the authors’ personal views and not necessarily representative of Birmingham University or of the London Probation Trust.
The recent disturbances across many key cities of Britain have led media commentators, politicians, senior police officers and others to consider the causes of the surprising, and even, shocking series of events that took place. Whilst some of these incidents involved extreme forms of violence in the form of murder, physical assault, arson, gang-related violence, other incidents are not so easily classified – looting, handling stolen goods, accepting items that had been looted by others. These sets of behaviours have been presented in media accounts as amoral, as people getting kicks out of lawless behaviour, as a symptom of a society whereby parents have lost control of their children.
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Why short term prison sentences are not working
In this, the third of our guest bloggers, we hear from Paul Cowley. Paul is an Ambassador for Make Justice Work and is also Executive Director of Caring for Ex-Offenders and The William Wilberforce Trust.
I’ve heard it proposed that the purpose of prison is fourfold:
- Punish the offender for the crime committed
- Protect the public
- Rehabilitate the offender
- Deter people from committing more crime
So the question is do short sentences achieve these aims?
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