00:00 It's a day of celebration for them, you know, they've gone through the program and it's
00:04 a step, it's another step to rehabilitation in respects of making a decision to make change
00:10 and that's always very difficult.
00:12 I know they're in a place where they're captive but at the same time once you make that decision
00:17 then it's easy for me to then speak to them to try and help me to continue on the road
00:21 of making the right decisions for themselves.
00:23 So you know it's nice when people, when you come into a place like this and you get so
00:27 much energy back because they're pleased to see you but at the same time it's an amazing
00:31 achievement that they've had today.
00:33 Being somebody who, you know what I mean, at one stage of my life I was actually incarcerated,
00:36 I was in prison in Chelmsford and I know that you can change, you know, so it comes down
00:43 to being a person in a position to speak from experience.
00:48 You know, funding is always going to be the major problem but you know it's very difficult
00:53 to complain when you're getting something, you have to get something because you have
00:57 to start somewhere, of course you need more funding and people say, oh, funding should
01:01 be going to more important things.
01:02 I don't know if there's anything more important in society right now than trying to bring
01:06 down the rates in respects of crime.
01:09 So you know, if we're going to talk about funding of course you can have more and the
01:14 more you can get you know you're going to welcome it but the fact is, is that something's
01:19 being done and when you see the happiness on their faces, when you see the change, it
01:24 makes you realise that things can change.
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