Focus on Prisoner Reintegration
The PF New Zealand 2007 annual conference, When Prisoners Come Home… A Community Response to Prisoner Reintegration, highlighted the many issues surrounding a prisoner’s release from prison.
Conference speakers addressed issues such as shame, research on reintegration, families and imprisonment, and the role of both government and community in prisoner reintegration. Presentations on programme models from New Zealand, Australia and Singapore provided practical experiences of assisting prisoner reintegration. PF New Zealand plans to publish a conference report by the end of 2007.
During the conference, PF New Zealand also released the proceeding book from its 2006 conference, Beyond Retribution: Advancing the Law and Order Debate. The report includes chapters related to:
- Setting the stage for reform
- Key issues in Reform
- Working within the Justice System
- Toward Prisoner Transformation
- Prisoners in the Community
- Future Indicatives
- The Conference in Retrospect
The 2006 conference proceedings are also available online.
September 2007