Roundabout that leads back to prison rosterThe Corrections department is putting more money and resources into how to support people after they leave the country's prisons. I am going to do my community work, do my probation. At sentencing last November, Judge James Johnston spared Johnson prison. Instead the judge sentenced him to 18 months of intensive supervision, cancelled existing fines of $782, and ordered him to do 150 hours of community work. "The bottom line is that if people come out of prison and get adequate support they are more likely to stay out of prison," he says.

Source: Stuff April 21, 2018 23:15 UTC