The success stories we never hear about / Guardian, 2 April 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/apr/02/prisonsandprobation.housing?gusrc=rss&feed=society
"Homeless ex-prisoners are bound to reoffend, says Eric Allison
...A current resident, Carl, who used drugs for 30 years, told me: "I walked in here a shell. It was gently broken open, and the real me came out." He has been drug-free and crime-free since leaving prison almost two years ago."