How a dairy farm could help prevent prisoners from reoffending

By Libby Payne, Forensic Psychologist & Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Prisons and the justice system often make headlines for issues like overcrowding or sentencing, but there’s a quieter, more transformative side to life behind bars that rarely gets attention.

While offending behaviour programmes are well established in prisons, research from my colleagues and I has focused on the rehabilitative potential of a very different aspect of prison life – prison dairy farm work.

At HMP Prescoed, an open prison near Usk in south-east Wales, prisoners are getting their hands…

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