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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Nicole Wootton-Cane

‘I came out of prison to nothing. This is the key to getting early release right’

Leaving prison after eight months behind bars, Aaron White knew he was staring straight back into a life of crime.

Kicked out of his family home at just 16, he had already started smoking cannabis and turned to dealing as a means to get by. But after being caught in an undercover police sting, he found himself in prison at 18 years old, and surrounded by hardened criminals. With nowhere to go and “no support” once he was released, he instead said he used the tricks he had picked up while inside to take his crimes “to a whole different level”.

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