Hugely varied: student vacation jobs in a factory assembly and work as a hospital cleaner; volunteering in probation and supporting older people living independently; market research and consumer representation; some university teaching and independent consultancy; and I trained as a probation officer.
He had accused her of being soft on crime because she supported probation for nonviolent small-time offenders (to make room in prisons for violent felons).
Chakrabarti, unsurprisingly, says no. 11.00pm: One former probation officer offered his support to Clarke.
Everson ended up in probation and ran a support group for victims of domestic violence that used the WomenCentre building.
"The good intentions of the government's Transforming Rehabilitation reforms, which meant to bring about a step change in rehabilitation by extending support from probation services to this large group of prisoners who previously received no supervision on release, have not yet been realised," says the report.
Hearings were held around the country where local race relations organisations, victim support groups, probation services and police gave evidence on problems with race crime and how they were tackled.
Sitting alongside them, in a regional Nom office, I would have a regional probation manager, responsible for supporting existing chief officers of probation through the provision of contracted regional services, where appropriate, such as drug treatment.
Anyone released from prison after a long sentence faces considerable difficulties, but most have the support of the probation service, and are gradually reintroduced into the world.
The Howard League for Penal Reform is calling for more support for the probation service and more emphasis on unpaid work by people who have committed crimes.
A 40-year-old former probation officer and women's support officer from the Rhondda Valley in south Wales, Wood sums herself up on Twitter as: "Plaid Cymru.
