The evidence is consistent, robust, and unambiguous: prisoners who engage in education whilst imprisoned are far less likely to reoffend after release.
What happens in those first weeks and months after release is often more predictive of future offending than what happens over years inside prison.
Some estimates suggest that ten to fifteen percent of people released from prison within a year experience homelessness.
The findings were striking: prisoners who maintain close contact with family reoffend at substantially lower rates than those with weak family ties.
When a prisoner achieves their first qualification — even something as modest as a Level 1 in English — they walk a little taller.
