In 2013, the UK government published plans to radically reform resettlement provision for released prisoners via a Through the Gate scheme to be introduced as part of its Transforming Rehabilitation agenda. Under the scheme, 70 of the 123 prisons in England and Wales were re-designated ‘resettlement prisons’ and tasked with establishing an integrated approach to service delivery, seamlessly extending rehabilitative support from custody into the community. This article utilises a case study of one resettlement prison to critically consider the implementation of these new arrangements. Drawing on insights by prisoners, prison staff and other key stakeholders, it argues that instead of enhancing resettlement, Through the Gate is actually enhancing resentment with Transforming Rehabilitation appearing to accentuate, rather than mediate, long-standing operational concerns within the prison system. The article argues that unless there is a significant renewal of the structures, processes and mechanisms of administering support for addressing the rehabilitative needs of prisoners, the current operational flaws within Through the Gate provision risk deepening the sense of a penal crisis.

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刑事危机期间的改造改造：英格兰和威尔士重新安置监狱中的过门服务案例研究

2013 年，英国政府公布了计划，通过作为其转型改造议程的一部分引入的“穿越门”计划，彻底改革释放囚犯的重新安置条款。根据该计划，英格兰和威尔士的 123 所监狱中有 70 所被重新指定为“重新安置监狱”，其任务是建立一种综合的服务提供方法，将康复支持从羁押场所无缝扩展到社区。本文利用一个安置监狱的案例研究来批判性地考虑这些新安排的实施。借鉴囚犯、监狱工作人员和其他主要利益相关者的见解，它认为，通过改造改造似乎加剧而不是调解，而不是加强重新安置，实际上是在加剧怨恨，监狱系统内长期存在的运营问题。文章认为，除非对解决囚犯康复需求的管理支持的结构、过程和机制进行重大更新，否则“通过门”条款中当前的操作缺陷可能会加深刑事危机感。