The Long Road to the Straight & Narrow by Mereo Books

by John Hedge

There were deep personal motives for John Hedge’s original decision to enter the Probation Service as a young Social Science graduate in 1970; his own mother, a struggling publican, had been put on probation during his youth, and he had seen how the service can prevent a criminal conviction from ruining a life beyond repair.

He spent the next 37 years working to try to give offenders a chance and help them move away from crime and find their way to a law-abiding existence. The barriers to success were all too often the attitudes of police and sentencers, the state of prisons and the prejudices of ignorant or biased politicians. This is a candid account of those years of hard work, frustration, and occasional triumph

Published: 1 October 2021
Pages: 318
ISBN: 978-1-86151-777-7
Size: 203 x 156
Price: £12.00
Format: Paperback

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