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  • Vern Hughes says:

    Rehabilitation of ex-offenders is primarily a social relationship-based activity, not a financial investment. It depends on members of the community (family, friends, neighbours, club members, mentors) encircling an ex-offender and providing circles of trust, belong and mutual support. These relationships are the critical factor, not external financial investment. Governments have failed to put in place arrangements of this sort, even though it is self-evident to most people that is the only way recidivism rates can be reduced.

    It is wildly inappropriate for governments to belatedly discover the relational only after lobbying from corporate interests turning up showing an interest in rehabilition as a means of getting a return on investment from taxpayers. This is an extraordinarily audacious exploitation of taxpayers. That social enterprises and governments have swallowed this corporate push for so-called Social Impact Bonds is a sad indictment of the pitifully primitive social policy debate in Australia.

    The really cruel aspect of this is the ignoring of families of offenders who have sought social support for ex-offenders for decades with no response from governments, only to see corporates walk in demanding a financial return from governments for showing an interest in ex-offenders and watching governments suddenly discover an interest in the social support they they should have had decades ago.

    Sadly, men in suits matter more to governments than families of people with challenges.


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