TV’s latest ‘social experiment’? Hosting former prisoners for 100 days
The Sydney Morning Herald, March 16, 2022: TV’s latest ‘social experiment’? Hosting former prisoners for 100 days
“What becomes abundantly clear over the course of Life on the Outside is that our biggest social problems do not lend themselves to an easy fix.
“The problem tackled by this three-part ‘social experiment’ documentary series – presented by Wentworth’s Danielle Cormack, it’s the latest in a conga line of such commissions from SBS – is recidivism, and it’s a problem well worth grappling with; according to the Sentencing Advisory Council, 46 per cent of all released prisoners in Australia return to incarceration within two years. Factor in those who don’t go to prison but end up on corrective services order and it rises to 55 per cent.”
Additional reading:
The Guardian, March 15, 2022: ‘It’s make or break’: would you open your home to help a former prisoner?
Interrogating Justice, April 30, 2021: Homelessness after Reentry Leads to Higher Recidivism Rates
The Marshall Project, December 4, 2014: The Misleading Math of ‘Recidivism’
