Danielle is in a new Australian documentary called “Life on the Outside” about recidivism in newly released prisoners. The doco will be on SBS and SBS On Demand (for Aussies and those with <cough> a VPN) Life on the Outside airs Wednesdays at 8.30pm.
The news is from the Sydney Morning Herald
What becomes abundantly clear over the course of Life on the Outside is that our biggest social problems do not lend themselves to an easy fix.
The problem tackled by this three-part “social experiment” documentary series – presented by Wentworth’s Danielle Cormack, it’s the latest in a conga line of such commissions from SBS – is recidivism, and it’s a problem well worth grappling with; according to the Sentencing Advisory Council, 46 per cent of all released prisoners in Australia return to incarceration within two years. Factor in those who don’t go to prison but end up on corrective services order and it rises to 55 per cent.
