Speaking in Ministry of Justice Questions, James Wild recently highlighted the success of Greene King's Releasing Potential Scheme on helping rehabilitate prisoners' and turn their lives around.
James urged the Government to boost rehabilitation schemes to reduce reoffending rates.
Speaking in Parliament James said:
Last week I met former prisoners who had taken part in Greene King’s Releasing Potential scheme, which is now being expanded with two further training kitchens going into prisons to help people turn their lives around. What are the Government doing to boost such programmes, and the employment advisory boards that we set up, to ensure that while prisoners are rightly punished they are also rehabilitated?
Sir Nicholas Dakin, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice said:
Such schemes and initiatives are exactly the sort of thing that this Government want to celebrate as best practice and replicate in other settings.
