New Life Stories, a non-profit organisation seeking to break the cycle of inter-generational incarceration, has kept its clients’ reoffending rate down to just nine per cent. This is significantly less than the national recidivism average of 22 per cent. With a new community space in Kallang Bahru, it now wants to ramp up efforts to support imprisoned parents and their children. Eugene Chow reports.
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