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Event Info: Fri 28 May 2010, SMC Function Centre - 66 Goulburn St, Sydney

An event for the National Homelessness Research Network, supported by AHURI.

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Ex-prisoners and accommodation: what bearing do different forms of housing have on social reintegration for ex-prisoners? (See project 70068)

Only a minority of people leaving New South Wales prisons have support which enables them to improve their welfare after their release. Drug use, unsatisfactory housing arrangements, and huge difficulties negotiating complex bureaucratic procedures for public housing are common issues cited by the participants in the study.

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Ex-prisoners and accommodation: what bearing do different forms of housing have on social reintegration for ex-prisoners?

A period in prison, especially a short period, far from rehabilitating an offender leads to a worse social context post-release than prior to imprisonment for many. As far as housing is concerned, the policy of imprisonment for short sentences for petty crime seriously destabilises at least half of those imprisoned and results in re-offending and re-incarceration.

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