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    ‘It’s make or break’: would you open your home to help a former prisoner?

    Mar 15, 2022 4 minutes

    We’ve all seen the setup in the movies. The gates open slowly, a recently released prisoner walks out, looking dazed. They stare at the sky, breathe in the air, say “so long suckers” and walk down the road to freedom and their future.

    But what happens after that? For prisoners without a home or family to go back to life outside can be a lot more precarious and unstable than life on the inside.

    One newsolution to the lack of suitable accommodation for recently released prisoners is to place them for a few months in a house with a private citizen,

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