The Citizens Advice Bureau will publish its report tomorrow.
"Prisoners report: A report looking at all stages of a prisoner’s experience in the penal system, showing there can be long delays for released prisoners in getting benefits, leaving some with nothing to live on for weeks and forcing some to turn back to crime. If prisoner’s benefits were in place at the point of release it could reduce reoffending significantly. Published 20th March".
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
It is not only prisoners who experience these long delays, it is spread across the whole board. AND NO WONDER! I have had opportunity to perform construction work inside what used to be called DHSS departments where they have desks set back to back, and the women who work at these desks spend a substantial part of the day chatting to each other about the previous evening's or day's happenings. I wondered at the time how much work could be processed if they actually got on with the business they were paid to do. And there was us, performing work to a price having to see how easy these civil servants had it......
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