Without anywhere to go, he made what he describes as a 'disastrous mistake' and stayed with a 'known associate'.
WATCH: Former prisoner Marc Conway says his Friday release left him with no time to sort housing, leaving him in breach of bailPrisoners vulnerable to addiction, mental health issues or homelessness will no longer be released on Fridays under new plans to cut reoffending. One prisoner who breached parole after being released on a Friday says he felt let down by the system. He told the BBC his story and what it says about prisoners at risk of lapsing back into a life of crime.
Without anywhere to go, he made what he describes as a "disastrous mistake" and stayed with a "known associate". "I was angry, I was resentful of the system. I felt the system had let me down again and I dread to think what I would have done that night if I didn't have somewhere to stay." Marc now works with the Prison Reform Trust and says that he still sees people having similar experiences to the one he had, two decades on.
Prison governors are expected to be given the power to end the practice for vulnerable prisoners in England and Wales later this year, after the government backed a Private Members' Bill from the Conservative MP Simon Fell. "We want to maximise the chance people have when they get out of prison to be able to access those services and that's just harder on a Friday," he said.
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