Time Travel comes in all sorts of ways, the physical and the mental, imagine being locked away from society for years and you then return home to find everything changed. The article below points out these facts and the experience for the former inmate.
I have always been wishing to spend a month away from all media and just see what the experience would be like. What would you miss? What would the end of the world be like, if you wasn't in the loop? I had the thought of a story idea, where a couple were watching TV on pause, so were 30 minutes behind the live TV, something me and my wife do a lot,, so we can fast forward through the adverts. But what if a newsflash came up and over rode the programmes? How would that pan out? How would your five minute warning information be given to you five minutes too late?
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"You get out and everything has changed. Cars have changed, people have changed, the style has changed. I never thought I'd wear bloody shoes like this I'll tell you. This is what people wear? Skinny jeans? I'm thinking, do I have to wear this? Is this how you look good?"
Jacob Skilling was 19 when he was jailed for nine years for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. He was paroled in 2016, and since then has had the support of rehabilitation centres which have helped him get on his feet. Claiming to have turned his life around, Skilling is now turning his attention to how others can too.
Being in jail is like being frozen in time, Skilling says. The world keeps moving but you're stuck at the moment of sentencing, emerging from jail in a futuristic world with skinny jeans and iPhones.
Skilling says prisoners like himself are being released into worlds foreign to them. For decades, this hasn't worked to reduce recidivism. Now, the Government is changing tack with a promise to reduce the prison muster.
Skilling says despite all the good intentions in Wellington, prisoners are ripe for reoffending the moment they leave the prison gates.
"They're starting to increase help around accommodation and things like that, but there's still not enough of that either. Some people just walk out of the gates and go to a friend's house and sleep on the couch."
In 20 years, neither National nor Labour have made a dent in prison numbers or reoffending rates.
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