Saturday, 28 June 2014

Achievable Ways To Rehabilitate Criminals

By Elsa English


Consistent high rates of re offending have resulted to radical overhaul as nearly half of the total ex prisoner re-offend within the first twelve months. The figure reaches to fifty eight percent for those serving a term of less than a year. The new proposal drafted that is set to rehabilitate criminals entails the following and is expected to bring down the rate of re-offenses.

Plans which are underway in the bid to transform rehabilitation focus on new and streamlined public sector that will be tasked in ensuring the public is safe from dangerous and high risk offenders. The private and voluntary organizations are to work hand in hand on eliminating the cycle of criminal justice system by tackling risk offenders of lower caliber. The first time offenders and those serving for less than a year will be subject to tailored rehab and compulsory supervision once released from prison.

The proposal provides for main usage of mentors that are supposed to encounter the lawbreakers upon their release. They are to be provided with the necessary support in running of their day in day out aspects of their lives. Some of the overseen help include, restoration by offering aid in finding jobs and accommodation, coming over drugs, intoxicants and alcohol and also monitoring their educational and literacy problems.

Releasing lawbreakers into the community with only small amounts of money and failing to provide any other kind of support does not help in any way. This makes it not to become a big deal that we have higher levels of freed criminals offending the crimes again. It is therefore insensible to keep on practicing the same old system and still maintain hopes of positive different results.

Awareness on wealth and availability of expertise throughout the public, voluntary and private sectors is well known publicly. This raises the need to unlock these resources as a step to finally begin to tackle the threatening high degrees of recurring offenses. The private and voluntary divisions are set to obtain invitations to bid with respective contracts getting the award which will be based on ideal mode of tackling re-offenses and innovation.

The proposal aims at seeing that everyone who got sentenced into prisons or probation gets punished accordingly in the process of receiving help to turn from wrong doings once and for all. It will also translate to spending money from taxpayers on whichever tasks when it comes down to cutting of crime. The public sector will be expected to retain the ultimate responsibility for protection of the public in all cases.

This new approach will oversee to that the private providers get paid in full only on condition that they are able to reduce re-offending rates in their areas. It will be based on payment by results contract. These proposals are aimed at driving advanced innovations and efficiency through the system of criminal justice. An amount of money is also to be offered to voluntary and communal sector groups in order to ensure they get ready to commence bidding for services.

The above elements in the set proposals have been analyzed and have been deemed fit to help in tackling the rate of re-offense. They are well set in a way that will ensure the ex-convict integrates properly into the society and be on a better position to find a genuine source of livelihood.




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