Rehabilitation: Prisoners' progress

Prisoners who attend vocational training are more likely to secure employment shortly after release and engagement with education can significantly reduce reoffending.

Research conducted in 2017 by the Ministry of Justice and Department for Education found that the one-year reoffending rate is 34% for prisoner learners, compared to 43% for people who do not engage in any form of learning activity.

Tanjit Dosanjh, optometrist and founder of the Prison Opticians Trust, says rehabilitation helps prisoners focus on something other than the negativity of the prison environment. He adds that schemes like the one he founded provide prisoners with the hope of having a career once they have served their sentence, plus the money they earn can be saved for life after prison.