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British prison staff and local council members credit a Three Principles-based programme for some dramatic changes they’ve seen in inmates. They say it also offers the best hope for change in terms of individual behaviour as well as prison reform.

Scott Davidson, a service manager at one of the three UK prisons where Beyond Recovery is currently working, has high compliments for the programme.

“After training and being given greater opportunity to gain further insight into the three principles, I now see it as being better than all the interventions I have ever seen or used.”

Scott said he has witnessed some dramatic behavioural changes in prisoners.

“We have seen prisoners go from being restrained by staff in visits, to being prisoners of trust (without restraints),” he said. “We are seeing prisoners go from being involved in the drug culture, to leaving it behind and progressing in the system. We are seeing prisoners begin to help each other from a genuine desire to help rather t...

Article written by Jaqueline Hollows from Beyond Recovery.

The BBC headline reads “An extra 2,100 prison officers are to be recruited to ease staffing shortages in jails in England and Wales, Justice Secretary Liz Truss will say later“.

But we are looking in the wrong direction for the answer because we need to treat the cause not the symptoms.

This blog post was originally published on LinkedIn
Yes! Extra prison officers would be a definite benefit to an overcrowded, over stretched, under appreciated system.

Yes! We need to do something to prevent prison officers being attacked in the course of their duties, this is unacceptable.

Yes! Prison officers job should be one of helping with rehabilitation, preventing the cost of £15billion a year in reoffending.

Yes! We need to do something about prisoners self harming, not least to address the depression, anxiety and anger that is underlying these behaviours.

However, extra prison officers (the time to recruit and train notwithstanding)...

John – not his real name – is serving a nine-year prison sentence and is participating in the Beyond Recovery programme, founded by Jacqueline Hollows, as a social enterprise that works within the criminal justice system, in custody (prisons) and the community.

“ I wanted to create social change. I decided that my life was to be about eliminating stigma and exclusion, particularly for those who had experienced addiction and offending behaviour. We are currently engaged in a 12-month programme in a UK prison. As part of that, we have just completed a 3-day immersion programme with 13 inmates.

The levels of intelligence, connection and resilience that were felt after just three days blew my mind. Men who previously had experienced PTSD, extreme levels of violent behaviour, depression and anxiety were talking about hope; forgiveness and possibility. One man, sentenced for 7 years but currently serving 15 due to his behaviour in custody, saw a way out of the prison in his mind and could no l...