Life skills: How tea and cheesecake are helping young inmates

“A lot young people have no people skills, the way they speak to officers, the way they come across seems rude and that just creates a clash.

“After doing this, I have seen young people that now know how to talk and approach people.

“It’s helped them go a long way in here and I can only imagine how much this would help them on the outside too. It’s the teamwork that helps so much too, picking skills up from other people.”

He added that the support inside was vital to their success outside and stopping the cycle of reoffending.

“A lot of people leave prison and come straight back because they are not given the opportunities to really better their lives. It starts here,” he says.

“There’s no support on release, so if you’re not helping people in here and they are not going to know what to do when and navigate life afterwards and put a plan together and make the right decisions when they get released.”