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Title Prisoners taught how to set up own businesses in bid to cut reoffending Media name/outlet The Courier Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/12/22 Producer/Author Press Association URL https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/scotland/3934501/prisoners-taught-how-to-set-up-own-businesses-in-bid-to-cut-reconviction-rate/ Persons Jay Wasim Title Prisoners taught how to set up own businesses in bid to cut reoffending Media name/outlet The Press & Journal Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/12/22 Description Prisoners have been taught how to set up microbusinesses in an effort to reduce the numbers ending up back behind bars, with the pilot project now looking to expand. Producer/Author Press Association URL https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/news/scotland/5101696/prisoners-taught-how-to-set-up-own-businesses-in-bid-to-cut-reconviction-rate/ Persons Jay Wasim Title ‘Sometimes the talent of people can go to waste’: Project to turn Peterhead prisoners into entrepreneurs Media name/outlet The Press & Journal Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/12/22 Producer/Author Ben Hendry URL https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/5097682/hmp-grampian-entrepreneurs/ Persons Jay Wasim Title Prisoners taught how to set up own businesses in bid to cut reoffending Media name/outlet The Sunday Post Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/12/22 Producer/Author Press Association URL https://www.sundaypost.com/news/scottish-news/prisoners-taught-how-to-set-up-own-businesses-in-bid-to-cut-reconviction-rate/ Persons Jay Wasim Title Prisoners taught how to set up businesses in bid to cut re-conviction rate Media name/outlet Scottish Business Insider Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/12/22 Producer/Author Dan Barker and Peter A Walker URL https://www.insider.co.uk/news/prisoners-taught-how-set-up-28611265 Persons Jay Wasim Title Prisoners given business training in bid to prevent reoffending Media name/outlet STV Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/12/22 Producer/Author Tara Fitzpatrick URL https://news.stv.tv/north/prisoners-at-hmp-grampian-trained-to-set-up-microbusinesses-in-bid-to-prevent-reoffending Persons Jay Wasim Title Heriot-Watt project aims to equip prisoners with entrepreneurial skills and address reconviction rate Media name/outlet The Scotsman Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/12/22 Producer/Author Scott Reid URL https://www.scotsman.com/business/heriot-watt-project-aims-to-equip-prisoners-with-entrepreneurial-skills-and-address-reconviction-rate-3935366 Persons Jay Wasim Title HMP Grampian prisoners taught how to set up businesses behind bars to reduce reoffending Media name/outlet Aberdeen Live Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/12/22 Description It costs around £40,000 to hold someone in prison every year, and a pilot project from Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University put women in Aberdeenshire's HMP Grampian through a three-day course in the hope of turning the tide on growing reconviction rates Producer/Author Dan Barker and Jon Hebditch URL https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/hmp-grampian-prisoners-taught-how-7878321 Persons Jay Wasim Title Entrepreneurial Training for Prisons has High Hopes to Lower Reconviction Rates Media name/outlet Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 1/12/22 URL https://www.edinburghchamber.co.uk/entrepreneurial-training-for-prisons-has-high-hopes-to-lower-reconviction-rates/ Persons Jay Wasim