Quotes About Reoffending

This is not rocket science. If you mentor and support people when they leave prison they're less likely to reoffend.

I want to see prison numbers come down. We need better custody that cuts reoffending and crime. And we need to ensure judges, magistrates and the public have full confidence in the other penalties available.

The best protection against recidivism is a job.

Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism.

A duty to the public must be to stop prisoners reoffending through successful rehabilitation.

Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.

the great majority of heroin addicts who end up in prison had extensive criminal records before they ever took heroin.

The recidivists think their rap sheets have the historical importance of the Magna Carta; their jailhouse tats are the equivalent of military citations.

There is one stark fact facing us: three quarters of all crime that results in a caution or sentence happens because of reoffending. We must be fearless in dealing with this.