Friday, June 27, 2014

A Proposal To Rehabilitate Criminals

By Elsa English


The consistent higher levels of re-offending have led to a radical renovation as almost half the total number of ex-convicts re offends in less than a year on their release. The figure is higher at about fifty eight percent in those that serve for terms of less than one year. The drafted new proposal is established to rehabilitate criminals so as to see a drop in re-offenses rates. The following is what is entailed in it.

Oncoming plans drafted to turn rehabilitation appearances into public sectors with a renewed and restructured outlooks are to be tasked to look into protection of public from high risk, dangerous offenders. The voluntary and private groups are set to work together in the elimination of cycling criminal justice system by involving with low caliber offenders. Offenders who are first timers and those serving terms not exceeding a year will undergo mandatory observation and rehabilitation as soon as their prison term is over.

Mentors are provided by the proposal and they will be tasked to meet with the wrongdoers once they are released. The ex-convicts are to be given required support in ensuring their daily aspects of life run smoothly. Some of the kind of help given to them include, restoring them by providing aid in job seeking and shelter, overcoming alcohol, drugs and intoxicants including monitoring of literacy problems.

Releasing of ex-convicts back into the general public with only a small amount of cash and still fail to provide other necessary aid does nothing to help counter the problem. This results to lack of change in the high numbers of jail leavers committing crimes repeatedly. Reading from the same old script and still hold hopes for positive changes therefore becomes insensible.

There is public awareness of the presence of wealth and expertise across the public, private and voluntary sectors. This potential needs to be unlocked in order to at last commence in tackling down of the threatening higher rates of re-offenses. Both the voluntary and private sectors are to attain invitation for bidding with individual contracts getting awarded based on best value in the tackle of re offending 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.

The new approach is set to ensure that private providers get full payments on conditions that they get able to cut down the rates of re-offenses in their areas. The contract is to be based on payments as per the results. The proposals are directed toward driving progressive innovation and efficiency via criminal justice systems. Some amount of cash is set to be given to both voluntary and communal groups as a way of boosting them to begin bidding for services.

The above overviews have been undergone in depth scrutiny and realized to be well effective in countering the rates of repeated crime. Their drafting is well done to enable the ex-convict integrate into the community in a smooth manner and also acquire an honest livelihood.




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