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UK: Older prisoners set up to fail by lack of support on release

12 July 2016

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"Older people released from prison are being set up to fail by a lack of adequate provision to meet their health and social care needs, according to a report published today by the Prison Reform Trust and Restore Support Network.

Limited and inconsistent support to help sort out housing, employment, personal finances and debt, drug and alcohol dependence, and re-establish family relationships is also undermining the effective resettlement of older prisoners and increases the risk of future offending.

The report, Social care or systematic neglect?, calls for the creation of a cross-government national strategy for meeting the health, social and rehabilitative needs of older people in prison and on release in the community."

See: Older prisoners set up to fail by lack of support on release (Prison Reform Trust, link)

And the report: Social care or systematic neglect? Older people on release from prison (link to pdf)

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