04-24-2010, 08:27 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,419
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Originally Posted by korinna5555
This is awesome.
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Definitely. I didn't know this or about the Storybook Dads charity that runs here either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USgtg...layer_embedded
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Originally Posted by HM Prison Service
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The future
I do not believe that the public at large realises just how much it owes to the voluntary sector, for what it does in prison, both in terms of what the public purse would otherwise have to provide, or in terms of what would be removed from the treatment and conditions of prison. (The former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Lord David Ramsbotham.)
Although it is well documented that prisoners are less likely to re-offend if good family relationships are maintained throughout their sentence, there is no mainstream statutory support for families of prisoners. Responsibility for addressing these issues largely rests with charities, which depend on funding from charitable sources. Storybook Dads is funded by grants from charitable trusts.
However, Storybook Dads manager, Sharon Berry, who has raised over £275,000 since the scheme's inception is optimistic, ‘Our funders have been very generous. We have enough money to keep going for another three years. We achieved a great deal over the past three years and we can continue to do so over the next three. Storybook Dads will continue to grow throughout the prison estate as long as resources allow'.
With successive Governments' ‘tough on crime' policies, more offenders are being sent to prison and sent to prison for longer. With the current prison population at an all time high of approx 77,000 any project that can maintain family bonds thereby significantly reducing re-offending should be implemented as extensively as possible.
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