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Sunday Sequence: Prison break - what happens after jail?

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21/04/2024

Prison break - what happens after jail?

BBC Radio Ulster - Sunday Sequence, Prison break - what happens after jail?

When a prisoner is released, is it a new start or does the sentence never end? 

Life after prison. What is the transition from jail to freedom? Will they re-offend? Will they re-integrate into the community and life that they had before prison?

What is the transition back into society like for those coming out of prison? Will they re-offend? Will they re-integrate into the community and life that they had before prison?
What are the most common problems facing former inmates- from housing to employment...is it all a difficult process, making the former prisoner feel like their sentence never ends?
Presenter Audrey Carville in conversation with Fiona Greene, CEO of NIACRO, which works with former prisoners, Robin Scott, Chief Executive of the Prison Fellowship NI and Michael Corrigan, who was jailed in 2012 for his part in a £3.4 million fraud case. He served 16 months of a three year and four month sentence and was released in 2013
After leaving prison he set up an organisation called Bridge of Hope Careers which helps to get ex-prisoners into work.


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