Mentors wanted for ex-cons

The Barbados Probation Service is in need of a few good mentors to help soon-to-be-released offenders.

Deputy Chief Probation Officer Angela Dixon said its Community Pillars Mentorship Programme For The Previously Incarcerated is struggling to find willing male participants while, on the other hand, the male offenders were eagerly signing up for it.

“The negative influences whom they were exposed to before they were imprisoned are always willing and ready to embrace them when they are released.