Life After Crime: Boxing Police, from 'enemy' to coach.
Nov 13, 2014, 12:27 PM
(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, November 2014)
ONE in three criminals in Stoke-on-Trent re-offend after they've been punished for a first offence.
BBC Radio Stoke's found that 28 per cent of offenders in the city return to crime, compared to 23 per cent in the whole of Staffordshire.
So what's being done to help prisoners avoid of life of crime when they leave jail?
BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS has spent a sparring session at a boxing club in Stafford -- where police work alongside current inmates and former offenders....