10,000 ex-inmates jobless, risk backsliding in Ho Chi Minh City: police

August 07, 2014 | 08:58

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About 10,000 former prisoners are now out of work and thus likely to commit crimes again in Ho Chi Minh City, the municipal police have warned.

These are among the 25,000 ex-inmates who were released between 2012 and 2014 after serving their jail terms, Colonel Dinh Thanh Nhan, deputy director of the HCMC Police Department said at a conference on Tuesday.

The 10,000 former prisoners cannot find a job as they are unskilled or beyond the working age, Col. Nhan elaborated.

These people do not have enough money to start their own business either, the deputy director added.

“So they run a high risk of relapsing into crime again,” Colonel Nhan said.

Last year, the relapsing rate was 5.3 percent and it rose to six percent in 2012, Col. Nhan revealed.

Speaking at the conference, Lieutenant General Cao Ngoc Oanh, head of the Police General Department for Justice Assistance and Execution of Criminal Judgments, asked relevant agencies to seek measures to help ex-prisoners land jobs as soon as possible so that they can have a stable life.

Having a job will help ex-inmates re-integrate into society soon, erase their complex about their past, and not relapse into crime, the official said.

At the event, the department hailed 403 former prisoners for making considerable progress in their life.

Of these, 17 have got rich and provided others who are also ex-prisoners with good jobs.

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