Various offenders comments:

• I have been in and out of prison for 14 years. Not once did I think about my victims. This programme has made me aware of how victims feel. I am ashamed of what I have done to my victims. I am grateful to the people from the community who have come in here and shared their stories as victims of crime because I now understand what I have done. 
• I am in prison because of a home invasion. I am serving time for aggravated robbery. I was 17 when I came to prison and now, at 19, I am finding the tools to begin to address the situation. I am grateful to the organisers who ran STP. I want to work towards sorting all this out with my victims by working with Jackie. 
• STP gave us the opportunity to step into the shoes of a crime victim. They could also step into our shoes as offenders. This has been a most helpful experience and the best programme I have done in prison.
• Most prison programmes teach you how to live right and behave properly. STP teaches you how to heal the effects of crime.
• One offender attended the Celebration event as a support person for one of the inmates who had taken part in STP. He himself had not been a participant in the programme. When there was an opportunity to stand and speak to the whole group, this young man stood up and spoke about his crime. He is serving a long sentence for murder. He quietly explained that up till this morning he had only understood his victim to be the person whose life he took. He had not grasped that the deceased family were indeed victims and probably still hurting. He is now looking forward to taking part in STP to learn more about how he can deal with the effects of his crime in terms of the victims who remain.

Victims comments:

• After being raped by my best friends brother at age 12 I had no one come to my aid. I have been through several failed marriages where my husbands have beat me and wanted me dead. During this programme I began to experience healing after all these years. Even my eyesight (which was down to 2% in my left eye) has been healed so I can now see properly.
• One person took part in STP thinking they had come to terms with the people who had hurt them and their family in the past but soon realised there was still work to do to extend forgiveness.