Corrections

Prison/Jail Reforms…continued

• Facilitate and encourage prison family/friend visitation
• Ramp up vocational training and education programs
• Hold employment preparation and expectation courses
• Hold seminars on family relations, interpersonal relations, and life skills
• Group and individual counseling (drug, alcohol, anger)
• Democratic prisons
• Release older inmates
• Open press policy
• Move to a full service “rehabilitation” prison model
• Better food

Prison/Jail reforms…continued

• Back-end options (ramp up reentry programs):

* early parole

* employment-based parole

* halfway-out houses

* tax incentives to hire ex-offenders

* removal of the de facto Bills of Attainder

* employment assistance programs

* alcohol/drug/mental health program access

* volunteers in parole

* overcome the lingering cultural orientation of Attainder (Singapore Yellow Ribbon Project)

Singapore’s Yellow Ribbon Project

http://www.yellowribbon.org.sg/

Singapore Yellow Ribbon Program Goals

• Create awareness of giving a second chance to ex-offenders.
• Generate acceptance of ex-offenders and their families within the community.
• Inspire community action to support the rehabilitation and reintegration of ex-offenders.

Yellow Ribbon Activities

1. Ex-offenders are recognize as being crime and drug free at an annual award

ceremony.

2. Public concerts are held regularly, where top-run celebrities perform with ex-

offenders.

3. Job fairs, specifically designed for ex-offenders, are held regularly.

4. High level conferences on corrections and re-integration are regularly convened.

5. Docu-dramas featuring inspiring success stories of ex-offenders are televised.