Employing prisoners in your business

The program benefits prisoners in the following ways:

• provides an opportunity to integrate and adjust to community life prior to release
• promotes positive workplace behaviour
• boosts self-esteem
• supports prisoners to continue in employment once they are released from prison
• renews community ties and develops new social relationships
• helps prisoners to take responsibility for their behaviour
• helps prisoners to financially support their family and dependents
• helps prisoners to manage personal debt, including payment of fines and infringements.