The Medium Intensity Rehabilitation Programme (MIRP) is designed to help offenders examine the causes of their offending and develop specific skills to prevent them re-offending.
Participants identify patterns in their thinking, emotions and behaviours that lead them to offend. They develop their own personalised programme plan that identifies risk factors linked to their offending and provides prosocial alternatives to offending.
The MIRP may be delivered to offenders in prisons or in the community.
The programme is aimed at men who are at medium risk of re-offending. They must have a RoC*RoI score of between 0.3–0.7 for all offence types except sexual offences, and be 20 years of age or older.
The MIRP is delivered over 134.5 hours (53 sessions) by programme facilitators to groups of ten participants. Sessions are intensive and usually run for 2.5 hours four days a week, except the first and last sessions, which run for 3.5 hours.
MIRP assists offenders to develop coping skills so they can manage difficult situations and impulsivity. Components woven throughout the programme address:
In the community
If an offender is eligible for the programme, the probation officer waitlists the offender in IOMS and forwards the completed referral form to the programme liaison manager (PLM) for CPPS Head Office approval. Once approved, the probation officer places the offender on the tentative list for the programme in IOMS
In prisons
If a prisoner is sentence planned for the programme and is eligible, the prison scheduler places the prisoner on the waitlist for the programme in IOMS.