The Prison Optician Trust works to rehabilitate offenders from Standford Hill on the Isle of Sheppey and East Sutton Park in Maidstone
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Updated: 09:07, 24 January 2021
A Kent optician has devoted his career to transforming the lives of offenders by giving them the skills needed for a successful career in optics.
Tanjit Dosanjh founded The Prison Optician Trust, an organisation which teaches offenders from Standford Hill on the Isle of Sheppey and East Sutton Park in Maidstone how to make spectacles at a training centre in Earl Street.
Tanjit Dosanjh founded The Prison Opticians Trust
It works by offering vocational courses to prisoners while they are serving time so they have the skills needed to find work when they are released.
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