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Hard Times: Is the ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’ Bad News for Enrichment Activities with Prisoners?
Rose Parkes, ‘Hard Times: Is the ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’ Bad News for Enrichment Activities with Prisoners?’, in: British Journal of Community Justice (2011), Volume 9(1/2), pp.125–139
The potential benefits of enrichment activities as part of a strengths-based rehabilitation model will be considered in this article, which will review the current state of artistic and spiritual initiatives in prisons alongside empirical data gathered at a weekly yoga class in a UK adult male prison. By so doing, this paper discusses the potential impact of the proposed rehabilitation revolution on enrichment activities and considers whether their unique merits warrant a reconsideration of what should be valued in criminal justice responses.
