New research into a free social initiative helping ex prisoners get their drivers licences has found that half have found either fulltime or part-time jobs.
The provincial driver education programme run by the Howard League for penal reform is for people who've been out of jail for less than a year.
Mike Williams is the Howard League's CEO and he says the cost of running each programme is $120,000, about the same as keeping a prisoner in jail for one year. He speaks to Kathryn along with John Utting from Utting Research, which has evaluated two of the initiatives, running in Hamilton and Whangarei.
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