Training for inmates
An Access training course for prison inmates is one of the new programmes approved by the Canterbury Regional Employment and Access Council this week. The programme was designed to equip prison inmates with a wide range of vocational and jobseeking skills, said the council's chairman, Mr Frank Crothall. “Council members recognised that the great majority of prison inmates have no qualifications and poor employment pros-
pects on release,” he said. A skills-training programme in the immediate pre-release period might avert reoffending by increasing a prisoner’s chance of finding work, said Mr Crothall. The council approved a 12-week pilot course for 30 prisoners to be run by the Prisoners Aid and Rehabilitation Society at Paparua Prison. It also approved a course in photographic and journalistic skills to be run by Te Waihora Press at Springston.
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Press, 2 October 1987, Page 4
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