‘At 17 all my heroes were gangsters – at 19 I did my first jail sentence’: the ex-prisoner helping others to change

According to the latest CSO figures, a quarter of all offenders on probation reoffend within a year, with half offending within three years. The stats also show that just under a third of men aged 25 committed further crimes within a year of receiving probation, while the figure for women under 25 is 26pc.