Need for more hostels to help reformed prisoners
In the time I was there I saw many prisoners going out and after a short time coming back in.
I asked some of these chaps why?
The answer was always the same: “If we couldn’t find somewhere to live, we couldn’t get a job and so had to break the law again so we could get a roof over our heads.”
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Hide AdI looked around the counties of East Sussex and West Sussex and could only find one hostel, I might be wrong.
If there were hostels around the counties where chaps could be helped, I would think this might be an answer. Some of these chaps had a trade but wouldn’t be taken on.
Why is this happening today. What is the council/Government doing about these people I would like to know?
Jim Woodgate
Salvation Army Chaplain,
Retired.
Thackeray Close,
Langney,
Eastbourne