Scoop Independent News
"Prison Fellowship & Sensible Sentencing Trust
Tuesday, 14 February 2006, 8:48 am
Press Release: Prison Fellowship
Prison Fellowship of New Zealand: Sensible Sentencing Trust
"If Garth McVicar (of the Sensible Sentencing Trust) and I can spend
a week together, and then agree that we need new approaches to
prison, and that the current system is not working, anything is
possible." That was the comment of Kim Workman, National Director,
Prison Fellowship about his visit to the UK, Netherlands and Finland,
as part of the Minister of Corrections fact finding visit. "At the
end of the day, all New Zealanders want the same thing, - safe
communities, a reduction in te numbers of victims, and working with
offenders so that they become useful members of society."
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Some of the funding spent on rehabilitation inside prisons, would be
better spent by developing community based rehabilitation programs,
or dedicated secure residential treatment centres, which operate not
as prisons, but as therapeutic communities. "
Full Story:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0602/S00090.htm
Dr. Craig Fees
Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre
Church Lane
Toddington
near Cheltenham
Glos. GL54 5DQ
United Kingdom
Phone/fax 01242 620125
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk
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