Transcript Re-wiring Prisons - Joining them up and improving results

Re-wiring Prisons
Joining them up and improving results
Peter Mason
Chief Executive
The Centre for Public Innovation
www.publicinnovation.org.uk
Re-wiring Prisons
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Education and skills
Substance misuse
Mental health
Housing and employment
Crime and recidivism
Motivation
Barriers to social inclusion
Re-wiring Facts
• Good parenting and education can reduce
offending
• 43% of convicted prisoners had a family
member convicted of a criminal offence
• One in three children will witness their father’s
arrest
• 85% adults and 25% YO have children
• 125,000 children affected by parents in prison
Re-wiring prisons
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Prison regimes and walls stop ideas
Too many things to do
What works
Segmenting the population
Better assessments and matching
Re-wiring opportunities
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NOMS
Prison health Transfer to NHS
Drug Intervention Programme
Education and Skills
Community prisons and resettlement
Re-wiring Vision
• Enhanced opportunities to rehabilitate and
reduce offending
• Located near to communities
• Equivalent services
• Common assessments
• Smaller units
• Education & skills key
Re-wiring Vision
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Clear pathway
Certificate of employability
Offender managers
Priority places in services
Employers supported
Families kept together
Offender management would be the glue
Re-wiring
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Innovation and working together
Build on opportunities
Challenge thinking
Break new ground
Testing them out in practice