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| More ex-offenders staying out of jail |
| By straitstimes.com- Ng Huiwen |
| Published: 02/18/2016 |
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More people who are sent to prison will receive stronger community support, during and after their internment, in a bid to break the cycle of re-offending. This is because community-based programmes, in which inmates can serve the tail-end of their jail terms outside prison walls, have helped to keep overall recidivism rates "low and stable", said the Singapore Prison Service (SPS). Of the total number of penal inmates put under such programmes, 96.9 per cent of the 886 in total successfully completed them last year, according to the latest annual prison figures released yesterday. Read More. |
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