Life After Crime: Reformed after 40 years of a life in prison.

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, November 2014)

ONE THIRD of criminals in Stoke-on-Trent re-offend after they've been punished for a first offence.

BBC Radio Stoke'd found 28 per cent of offenders in the city return to crime, compared to 23 per cent in the whole of Staffordshire.

Across the UK re-offending costs the tax payer an estimated 13 billion pounds a year.

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.

She met one man, Robbie, who has spent 40 years of his life in and out of prison....