LinkedIn: Blank canvas

LinkedIn, the professional social network, partnered with a UK social enterprise to bring awareness to the difficulties of finding employment after incarceration.

Strategy and Research

One in four UK prison leavers reoffend in the first year of their release. The annual cost to the economy is a staggering £18bn. How can we help to turn prison leavers away from crime?

The biggest lever is opportunity. Eight out of 10 prison leavers are unable to find work in the first year of their release. Unemployment rates for former prisoners are much higher than the wider population.

LinkedIn partnered with social enterprise Inside Out to show that providing skills based training, coaching and employment opportunities to young prison leavers is the best way to...

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