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Social movement is a potential tool in solving UK prison crisis by helping ex-convicts learn new skills and readjustGood beer, said Thomas Jefferson, “softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health”.It may also be a potential tool for helping solve the crisis in British prisons. A craft brewery set up to employ ex-convicts and train them in the art of ale-making has proved a success in cutting reoffending rates – and is now being hailed as a possible template for ways to ease the unprecedented overcrowding in UK jails. Continue reading…
Social movement is a potential tool in solving UK prison crisis by helping ex-convicts learn new skills and readjust
Good beer, said Thomas Jefferson, “softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health”.
It may also be a potential tool for helping solve the crisis in British prisons. A craft brewery set up to employ ex-convicts and train them in the art of ale-making has proved a success in cutting reoffending rates – and is now being hailed as a possible template for ways to ease the unprecedented overcrowding in UK jails.
