In Great Britain an entire workforce of over 230 people is released from prison each day.
Reducing offender recidivism has been difficult despite the fact that ex-offenders cost the UK Government and larger community at least £4.5 billion annually or £12.3 million per day.
Within a year of being released from prison, nearly half of all inmates commit new crimes; young offenders and those serving shorter sentences are significantly more likely to do so.
Time to radically reengineer how we rehabilitate ex-offenders
The SCEPTRE Intropreneur© programme is a unique multifaceted approach to a complex problem.
Due to vulnerabilities and adverse life experiences, ex-offenders are generally ineligible for traditional career opportunities as employees, making self-employment the only real alternative.
Self-employment, however, is frequently an unsuccessful path because many people lack the skills necessary to establish and maintain a consistent cash flow for basic necessities like housing, food, utilities, and transportation—the main socioeconomic factors that contribute to acquisitive crime and offending.
How We Work
We help agencies and governments to develop prison entrepreneurship programmes that could benefit the economy and wider society by adding almost 11,000 new businesses each year.
No talking shops; no offender conferences; no policy sound bites. Instead, we engage prisoners and ex-offenders with our tailored interventions to ensure that the fundamental roots of offending behaviour are eliminated.
- The Intropreneur© Programme – Custodial
- The Phoenix© Programme – Community
- Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
- Cognitive Behavioural Interventions
- Specialist Offender Behaviour Programmes