If we want to see re-offending rates go down, a radical solution could be to train prisoners in how to start their own businesses.
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The United States could have a more productive discussion about prison reform, if we admitted the problems with prisons also affect our poorest communities.
Prisons cost data should facilitate comparisons of relative performance, value for money and efficiency. But limitations on the quality of the data mean that, more often than not, they don’t.
The ACT’s first prison opened in 2009 with lofty ideals, but rising prisoner numbers and high rates of re-imprisonment are presenting a severe test of the capital’s reformist corrections agenda.
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