Headline: Corrections needs to reconsider reintegration centre
“This was an opportunity for post release prisoners to be monitored intensively by skilled professionals dedicated to making sure that they stayed on the straight and narrow,” Mr Clendon said.
The Department of Corrections should reconsider scrapping a plan to actively manage post release prisoners that could have cut re-offending rates, Green Party corrections spokesperson David Clendon said today.
The Department of Corrections has scrapped plans for a cutting-edge prisoner reintegration centre in Taranaki. Corrections announced that the centre had been put in the too-hard-basket and would not go ahead.
“This was an opportunity for post release prisoners to be monitored intensively by skilled professionals dedicated to making sure that they stayed on the straight and narrow,” Mr Clendon said.
“Keeping the wider community safe with well managed rehabilitation programmes should be the number one priority here.
“This is an opportunity for New Zealand to look at best practice in the area of rehabilitation.
“Corrections should rethink their decision to scrap this project and work with the community in New Plymouth to make this project work,” Mr Clendon said.
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