Does prison work?
Jason Hill was a persistant young offender who the courts and Youth Offending Services had given up on.
He was facing two years in a secure unit when his life suddenly changed. The judge at Woolwich Crown Court decided to revoke the court order and to put him in the hands of Charles Young’s London Anti-Crime Education Service.
Since then, he has turned his life around and is now a mentor with Young’s project which aims to show young people the reality of prison life and the positive alternatives open to them.
Young will not only be speaking about his work at a Cambridge Festival of Ideas debate on 21st October on whether prison works, but he will also be demonstrating his unorthodox approach to deterring young people from a life of crime at an event on October 22nd.
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How to stay out of prison is on 22 October at the Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site from 12.30-1.30pm.
The Does prison work? debate takes place at the Judge Business School on 21 October from 6-7.15pm. Other speakers include Professor Lawrence Sherman who will speak about his work with police on devising alternatives to prison; Jennifer Rubin from Rand; and John Podmore, ex-governor of Brixton Prison and a member of the RSA.
Pre-booking is advised.
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