Life After a Life Sentence
Oct 24, 2014, 11:19 AM
(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, October 2014)
Operation Nemesis, Staffordshire Police's campaign to remove drug dealers from the streets of Stoke-on-Trent, last month saw two men jailed and more than thirty other suspects arrested.
But what happens after a life of drugs and crime leads people to jail? What happens after prison?
Later this morning we'll be asking the question whether former inmates would be less likely to re-offend if they didn't have to tell people and potential employers about their criminal records.
It's after BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS met SIMON EDWARDS, a former offender who now runs a Christian Mission and Construction company for men leaving prison....