The Long Road to the Straight and Narrow: The challenges of a life in the Probation Service Hedge John
The Long Road to the Straight and Narrow: The challenges of a life in the Probation Service Hedge John There were deep personal motives for John Hedge's original decision to enter the Probation…
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The Long Road to the Straight and Narrow: The challenges of a life in the Probation Service Hedge John
There were deep personal motives for John Hedge's original decision to enter the Probation Service as a young Social Science graduate in 1970; his own mother, a struggling publican, had been put on probation during his youth, and he had seen how the service can prevent a criminal conviction from ruining a life beyond repair. The barriers to success were all too often the attitudes of police and sentencers, the state of prisons and the prejudices of ignorant or biased politicians. He spent the next 37 years working to try to give offenders a chance and help them move away from crime and find their way to a law-abiding existence.
This is a candid account of those years of hard work, frustration, and occasional
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