The Citizen is running an occasional series from people who work in the Criminal Justice System in Gloucestershire. John Bensted, chief executive officer of the Gloucestershire Probation Trust, will be writing for The Citizen regularly.
Article extract from This is Gloucestershire 3rd September 2010
Judges and magistrates in Gloucestershire have a wide range of community sentences available to them to tackle and reduce criminal behaviour.
One of the best-known carried out by Gloucestershire Probation Trust is Community Payback. It has a significantly better success rate for some offenders than a short-term prison sentence, and has been developed over many years. It is a combination of punishment and rehabilitation, which is of benefit to both the community and the offender.
In today's Echo you will have read how a Community Payback sentence changed the life and prospects for Hayley Lloyd, and there are many other success stories like Hayley's.
Unfortunately, a rather negative view of Community Payback was portrayed on the TV last night, but I can assure you that the story in Gloucestershire is very positive one.
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