What young offenders say about us

'When I looked at my future life line I could see a positive way and a negative way. I am going to go to positive route”

“I learned to talk about thing rather than running away. Normally I block it out and express I feeling in crime, drink and drugs”

“I can do it if I try. Just needed help”

“It helped me with my confidence and emotions”

“It shose me that ther is more than one way to aproche a sotuaton”

“I never thought of myself as being likeable”

“It has made me relise my mistakes”

“Realizing who are the right people in my circle. I don’t need other people’s thoughts – especially negative”

“I have achieved certain thing that I would not have if I did not have a mentor in prison”

“Opened my thoughts. It has made me think about using some of the ideas I have talked about when I’m on road”

“I have changed the way look and behave towards other people plus I have woken up and come back to the world. My mentor help me with life and general stuff”

“More humble, find inner strength I never thought I had. More understanding and reasonable to people. Listening to both sides”

“I basically have to start over and I think that’s going to be hard but I have to do it for my own good”


About their mentors

“She is very good, young, understanding, someone I can relate to”

“He’s a diamond! He’s helped me a hell of a lot!”

“10 out of 10”

“He has put in a lot of effort and I don’t want to disappoint him”

“My mentor provided al I needed, so Im bless”

“Really, really helped! Agata is very exceptional”

“Young or old, people like Richard are good. Because he is old he knows what he is talking about. Richard got the work done when that needed to be done, but in the last two sessions, when I really needed to talk and have someone listen he was amazing at that as well. He gave me advice without telling me what to do and I somehow feel like the pressure’s been taken out of my brain now. And he helped me to think that maybe my sentence is a chance to learn, not just a punishment”