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| Thursday, 19 May 2011 10:47 | |||
 Prison officials are hoping some new thinking will help offenders get back on the right track after release. Four officers from Her Majesty’s Prison on Grand Turk have just completed a two-week training program aimed at helping them to teach prisoners how to use their minds to improve their actions. “‘Just Think’ is a cognitive-based program which attempts to improve offenders thought processes and thinking skills, which is the critical to successful rehabilitation,” explains Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Public Safety Denise Saunders. “The completion of this program and the accreditation of the students that attended will have a significant impact on the TCI government’s rehabilitation agenda as it will offer support to sentence management within the prison and allow us to demonstrate effective interventions for those in our care,” she said before awarding officers with their certificate of competence. The “Just Think” programme was developed by rehabilitation tutors from the United Kingdom. “This course has covered the thinking and behaviour aspect of offender rehabilitation,” Prison Superintendent Ian Sargent said during a presentation ceremony. “The trained staff will deliver thinking skills training to prisoners. “The core principle is to show prisoners how poor thinking skills can lead to poor decision making and consequences. It then develops the theme to then show prisoners how to develop good thinking skills. Further to this it also empowers our staff to learn and develop professional and relative skills within a custodial setting.” The May 3-13 programme included the four TCI prison officers alongside several of their counterparts from the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla who also took part in the training. Lead U.K. Rehabilitation Tutor Stephen Bunce congratulated the prison officers on making the experience so rewarding, and said he was impressed with the skills they had developed over the eight-day period.
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