Digital technology can help reduce reoffending by improving education, skills training, and access to support services for prisoners before and after release. It argues that better use of secure digital tools in prisons could address the gap between life inside custody and the increasingly online world people return to.
Many prisoners leave custody with low digital literacy and limited employment-ready skills, and suggests that in-cell learning platforms and structured digital programmes can help bridge this gap. Improving rehabilitation through technology could reduce long-term costs to the justice system and society.
Digital technology can be used to slash prisoner reoffending rates – here’s how
