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First Dates' Fred Sirieix reveals HMP Lincoln as new prison restaurant site

HMP Lincoln is the newest site for a teaching restaurant staffed by inmates and run by Fred Sirieix.

I love projects like this … “The scheme offers selected inmates the chance to achieve City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma in catering and front-of-house qualifications. Mr Sirieix said he hoped the scheme would both stop reoffending among inmates as well as help tackle the skills shortage in the UK's hospitality industry.”

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Reoffending Rates are Misleading

Justice Secretary Dominic Raab recently tweeted that reoffending rates had fallen two percentage points compared to the same period in the previous year to 23.1% and down since above 30% in 2009-10. Reoffending rates have fallen by over 2 percentage points since the same period last year to 23.1% – down from almost 31% in 2009/10.This shows that our investment in drug rehab, training in prisons…

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Lags the way to cut re-offending

Lags the way to cut re-offending | Study shows helping prisoners start their own firms could help reduce crime. #socent #prisonreform #GoodPrisonNews

Prison lags are being encouraged to become Dragon’s Den style entrepreneurs in a bid to slash the cost of re-offending across the UK.

Researchers claim that many of Britain’s prisoners already have the skills needed to become successful business owners, but are let down by a system that doesn’t help them set up their own firm when they leave jail.

A Devon-based researcher, Sheena Leaf, found that…

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Australia's final residing convict bucked the pattern of reoffending

Australia’s final residing convict bucked the pattern of reoffending

By Barry Godfrey and Lucy Williams

Posted January 10, 2018 15:43:30

Characterize: Swan River Colony obtained the final cargo of convicts to Australia. (Jane Eliza Currie, Panorama of the Swan River Settlement, 1831). (Verbalize Library of NSW)

The Hougoumont, the final ship to resolve convicts from the UK to Australia, docked in Fremantle, Western…

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MAKING OUR ROADS SAFER - THE 2017 NUDGE AWARDS: NUDGE FOR GOOD

THE CHALLENGE

The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) partnered with West Midlands Police (WMP) to try to make our roads safer and reduce costs to the Police and wider criminal justice system, whose budgets are already under strain, resources can be focussed on other important areas.

Criminology studies show reoffending to be extremely difficult to shift. Despite this, due to budget limitations, we had no money to invest in a new intervention, so we needed to come up with a costless adaptation to an existing process.

We designed an intervention and tested it scientifically, using a randomised controlled trial (RCT). The intervention targeted 15,346 drivers of vehicles caught speeding. The objectives were to increase compliance with speeding sanctions (and thus reduce the number of drivers being prosecuted); and to reduce speeding reoffending.

OUR SOLUTION

Our solution adapted the way the Police communicated with drivers who had been caught speeding, namely a letter known as the Notice of Intended Prosecution (NIP).

Following the principles of our EAST framework, we made it easier for drivers to understand the NIP by simplifying its visual format and re-designing the call to action.

The previous content of the NIP focussed on compliance with the sanction and the risks of noncompliance, but it didn’t explain to drivers why they shouldn’t speed. We addressed this with a leaflet that explained why speeding limits existed where they did and reminded drivers of the     potential consequences of breaking them.

Our impact evaluation used a clustered RCT design, grouping drivers by week and assigning one week to treatment and the next to control over several months.

THE RESULTS

The intervention reduced the likelihood of reoffending by 20 percent within 6 months of an individual’s offence (in the West Midlands alone). If we could observe subsequent speeding offences outside the West Midlands, we estimate the effect would increase.

It also increased the likelihood of the penalty notices being paid by 13.7 per cent, and crucially reduced the likelihood of prosecution by 41.3 per cent (see graphs). Those receiving the new penalty notices also paid their fines 20 per cent faster.

Using Police and Home Office data, we estimated the intervention will save the criminal justice system £1.5m per year in the West Midlands alone which could read across to £25m in England and Wales. We are incredibly excited about these results and are replicating the trial with a different force. More broadly, we think this approach – treating offenders in a more adult way by explaining the rationale behind laws – can be a useful tool for law enforcement.

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#Justice #alcohol&druglaw #Court #reoffending

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#Justice #alcohol&druglaw #Court #reoffending

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How Can We Break the Cycle of Reoffending in UK Prisons?

How Can We Break the Cycle of Reoffending in UK Prisons?

How Can We Break the Cycle of Reoffending in UK Prisons?

The UK prison system is under considerable pressure at present – and one aspect which is of particular concern is rates of reoffending. Statistics show that close to half of all ex-inmates go on to reoffend within a year of their release. This figure is even higher for juvenile inmates (66%).

This figure isn’t just alarming as an…

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