Further to our earlier report on the new Tory prisons policy and its emphasis on providing more prison places a much bigger theme
of prisoner rehabilitation emerged from today's launch conference with David Cameron and Nick Herbert:
An executive law that was implemented in 2011 called for the parole board to be more «forward thinking» — with a focus
on prisoner rehabilitation and less of a focus on the inmate's original crime.
Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of the day's political developments, including David Cameron's speech on
prisoner rehabilitation and the criminal justice system
Here, that objective was
prisoner rehabilitation, not employment; there may have been an element of personal service in practice, but that was not the principal purpose.