repeating my tale..when a Danish acquaintance many years ago got 18 months for an attempted bank robbery he was actively encouraged while inside to work on a career for his release.
They even allowed him to make moves to set up a video importing business whilst inside so that when he left jail..he had a ready made job to go to and he became one of Denmark most successful importer of movies on video (remember videos?)
Sounds bloody sensible to me.
His crime: he rented a room opposite a bank and put a store dummy at the window holding a broom..rang the bank manager and said
"I have a marksman with a gun trained on your bank and he'll shoot a customer unless you hand over a bag of cash"
The manager went and looked and came back and said..
" your marksman seems to have collapsed"..the dummy had fallen over.
he got caught because he rented the room in his own name.