Reducing re-offending

There are over 83,000 people in prison today and whilst prison may be effective in safeguarding the community it is failing to change their long-term behaviour.

Reducing offending and re-offending is critical to the creation of safer and stronger communities and involving local people as mentors, empowering them to take an active role in community safety issues.

Probation manages over 1,500 individuals (10% of which are female), over 500 of which are currently in custody and the rest are on Community Orders or out of prison on licence. 84 of these prisoners are women and their children have either been taken into care or cared for by extended family.

460 prisoners are released back to Salford annually and 66% are reconvicted within two years

As people come back  into the community they need somewhere to live and an income and without these crime may be their only option. The longer they have been away the harder it is to integrate back into the community.

Many individuals can lose touch with their children, family and friends and this just adds to the problem. Without support many will find themselves re-offending and many end up in prison again.

That is why Salford have pulled together all the key agencies involved in addressing key issues taken forward by the Reducing Reoffending Board and its task groups.

This page was last updated on 3 October 2009