Ms Caron McCaffrey:

We are having conversations with the Central Statistics Office. It does a comprehensive study for us on recidivism rates. We would like to be able track to people. We had some innovative programmes, for example, the Red Cross programme. We would love to be able to track people involved in that programme, which gives a person a sense of agency within a prison context which we hope they build on when released. We have a data analyst now assigned to the Prison Service who is part of the data analyst team in the Department of Justice. The area requires more research but there is a huge commitment from our perspective. We know what does not work but we would like to be more scientific about what does work so we can focus our attention there.