Education aims to lower rate of reoffending

When the reoffending rate was introduced as an important factor in the evaluation of prisons in 2008, the Bureau of Prison Management introduced a range of courses designed to help ex-inmates stay on the straight and narrow when they re-enter society.

Classroom education is now mandatory in all prisons, and inmates are offered courses in legal and cultural studies, psychology and technology.

Every prison must ensure that prisoners spend two months studying the law to ensure that they cannot use ignorance as an excuse for their wrongdoing.