Are prisons making our society safer?
By Jacob Hill, 9 December 2025
Fellow's Profile
Jacob Hill
Fellow's Profile
Jacob Hill
Reducing reoffending from society's perspective
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Reintegrating former prisoners into communities to reduce reoffending
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2020
- Locality
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Yorkshire and The Humber
Contact
Biography
I believe everyone deserves another chance. After getting into a significant amount of debt due to a failed business whilst I was studying at university, I made the choice to break the law and was sentenced to 28 months. During my time in prison, I met some amazing individuals who wanted another chance at being members of our society, but did not think they deserved or would get one. I formed Offploy to reduce reoffending and make society safer by placing people with criminal convictions into meaningful, mentored and sustainable employment.
During my Churchill Fellowship, I will visit Brazil to understand how they have significantly reduced the cost of incarceration by encouraging self-run prisons. I will also visit Singapore and Fiji to understand how they have drastically reduced reoffending through societal acceptance. I hope to embody the values of Sir Winston Churchill on my travels, and do the Fellowship proud.
Ideas
Activity
Unlocking Rehabilitation: Learnings from high imprisonment rates
England and Wales imprisons more of its citizens than any other country in Western Europe according to a Prison Reform Trust Report. And in 2015, I became one of those imprisoned citizens.
By Jacob Hill, 21 March 2024
January 2021 Fellow's update: Jacob Hill
Managing director Jacob Hill (CF 2020) appointed the former Justice Secretary, Rt Hon David Gauke, as Patron of his social enterprise, Offploy. Jacob founded the organisation to help ex-offenders find work and his Fellowship will explore ways to reintegrate former prisoners into communities.
By Jacob Hill, 31 January 2021
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
Ideas
Are prisons making our society safer?
By Jacob Hill, 9 December 2025
Activity
Unlocking Rehabilitation: Learnings from high imprisonment rates
England and Wales imprisons more of its citizens than any other country in Western Europe according to a Prison Reform Trust Report. And in 2015, I became one of those imprisoned citizens.
By Jacob Hill, 21 March 2024
January 2021 Fellow's update: Jacob Hill
Managing director Jacob Hill (CF 2020) appointed the former Justice Secretary, Rt Hon David Gauke, as Patron of his social enterprise, Offploy. Jacob founded the organisation to help ex-offenders find work and his Fellowship will explore ways to reintegrate former prisoners into communities.
By Jacob Hill, 31 January 2021
Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
