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Resources to assist prisoners or their families with re-entry & reintegration.
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Innovative Media |
Reintegration Toolkit |
Online Resources |
| Links to media clips from around the world showcasing creative initiatives that support offenders transitioning from prison back into the community. Many of these emphasise skills building, desistance and positive change, and giving back or paying back to the community. | A collection of pre and post prison resources for practitioners, students, ex-prisoners and their families in Tasmania Australia and Australian prisons. The toolkit features sections on jobs, accommodation, community based services for health, welfare services, transition etc, and and some criminal justice information. | Links to detailed International information resources eg, media, reports, articles, websites relating to offender reintegration; supporting ex prisoners in getting housing, employment as well as the criminological literature and evidence base on re-entry, reducing re-offending and desistance. |
What’s New in re-integrate?
§ An excellent journal link on employment based reentry programming from Criminology & Public Policy™
§ Safe is a quality video [from Inside Job Productions] made for NAPA and Ministry of Justice about Approved Premises in the UK
§ Hear the Lord Bishop of Wakefield deliver his speech in House of Lords(UK) on unspent convictions
§ PEP Prison Entrepreneurship Program in Texas (US) trains a carefully selected group of inmates in business skills and character building so that they have hope and direction when they’re released back into society.
§ Second Chance Project AKA Old Boys Gospel Band visits Tasmania Prison Service at RPC, Womens, Hayes and Ron Barwick prisons in for 4 gigs.
§ Can prisons rehabilitate? check out Bastoey island in Norway.
§ Assistance Dogs – Pups in Prison program in Tasmania Prison Service.
§ Rehabilitation through the Arts is a program in NY prisons.
§ The Tasmania Department of Justice released ‘Breaking the Cycle‘ the strategic plan for 2011-2020.
§ Check out the 2 new links to theatre and prison; plays by Romanian inmates and Poetic Justice Project.
§ Electric Radio Brixton and How to safely reduce prison populations and support people returning to their communities.
§ Links to video and web sites including Home for Good a joint community & corrective services chaplaincy initiative in Newcastle (AU).
§ The Yellow Ribbon Project in Singapore
§ In Transition from Prison to Community video, hear two ex offenders give their own account of leaving prison and getting a second chance.
Don’t forget to check the Media Page for links to some of the most innovative and resourceful ideas for reintegration and transition


