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2nd Chance Project |
| The Second Chance Project uses sport, leisure and culturally familiar activities to engage offenders in custody as well as young people at risk within socially deprived areas. |
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Butler Trust |
| The Butler Trust is an independent charity which recognises excellence and innovation by people working with offenders in the UK |
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Clinks Working with Offenders Directory |
| The Working with Offenders Directory is a searchable database of organisations that provide services to offenders and/or their families. The directory can be used to find organisations working in your area in order to forge partnerships and share good practice. Listing your organisation is free of charge, and enables you to advertise your services to directory users, including prison and probation services, commissioners, other voluntary sector organisations, and offenders. Start your search, or list your organisation’s details at: www.workingwithoffenders.org |
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Commission on English Prisons |
| This independent Commission will look at the driving forces influencing change and practice including legislation, politics and the media. It will consider the principles, purpose and limits of a penal system and how it should sit alongside other social policy strategies.
The Commission will prompt public debate using local and national media, consultation meetings with key players, seminars and public events including evidence sessions in public, feature articles, consultation papers, website consultations/questionnaires and other ways of engaging with people.
Commissioners will make visits to explore new ideas and where effective and systemic change has been achieved. Final report will be published in 2009.
The Commission would like to thank all the trusts and individuals who have supported its work by giving their time and expertise and financial support. We would like to take this opportunity of thanking the Law Society Charity for its generous grant. |
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Emailaprisoner |
| Email a Prisoner offers a service that enables you to send messages to prisoners in the UK from any computer without all the hassles of writing and posting a letter for less cost than a first class stamp. |
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Feltham Community Chaplaincy Trust |
| Feltham Community Chaplaincy Trust is a multi-faith organisation in which people of different faiths work together to help young offenders rebuild their lives. We were the first Community Chaplaincy Project in the UK to work with Young People leaving prison. The Community Chaplaincy Team are always keen to hear from you. So if you would like more information about our work or want to get involved in some way please do get in touch. Office telephone number: 020 8844 5585 |
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Fine Cell Work |
| Fine Cell Work is a Registered Charity that teaches needlework to prison inmates and sells their products. The prisoners do the work when they are locked in their cells, and the earnings give them hope, skills and independence.
Savings reduce the likelihood of offenders returning to crime. Prisoners often send the money they earn from Fine Cell Work to their children and families, or use it to pay debts or for accommodation upon release.
The inmates are all instructed by volunteers, many of whom have been taught at the Embroiderers Guild, the Royal School of Needlework and the world of professional design. Once trained, they can be responsible for difficult commissions done to deadlines, and support other inmates who are still learning. |
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Healthcare Inside |
| This website aims to provide you with up-to-date information in relation to developments in improving the healthcare in prisons. |
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HM Inspectorate of Prisons |
| HMIP is an independent inspectorate, led by an appointee of the Home Secretary, which reports on conditions for and treatment of those in prison, young offender institutions and immigration removal centres. |
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HM Prison Service |
| On this site you will find the official information about the work carried out in prisons throughout England and Wales. |
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Independent Monitoring Boards |
| Few people realise that inside every prison and immigration removal centre there is an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) – a group of ordinary members of the public doing an extraordinary job. IMB members are independent and unpaid, appointed by Home Office Ministers to monitor the day-to-day life in their local prison or removal centre and ensure that proper standards of care and decency are maintained. |
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Inside Job Productions |
| Inside Job Productions is a unique new non-profit multi-media production company which works with women prisoners to produce highly professional video, print and multi-media products with a social purpose |
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Inside Out Trust |
| The Inside Out Trust develops prison projects based on restorative justice principles. Prisoners learn new skills which they willingly use to provide goods and services to disadvantaged people all over the world; new skills which improve their own employment prospects after release. Prisoners learn about the needs of other people and their ability to help them. They feel restored to the world outside and more positive about their place within it. |
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insideinformation |
| This service is designed to help prisoners their friends and family members and anyone working in a prison related industry or service. The website has been designed with input from former prisoners. It includes information kindly supplied directly by each prison and the respective organisations whose service details are provided. Behind the scenes a team is working to add more information as it arrives and is checked. By the end of July we expect the vast majority to have been checked and uploaded. All information will then be checked and updated on an ongoing basis to ensure it is all as up to date as possible. |
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IQRA Trust Prisoner Welfare Directorate |
| Works to promote a better understanding of the needs of Muslim inmates in British prisons. |
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Ministry of Justice |
| New department as of May 2007 and the new home of NOMS. Responsible for courts, prisons and probation. Part of the Department for Constitutional Affairs |
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National Association of Official Prison Visitors |
| Prison Visitors belong to their local PV group, meeting regular for training and support. They also belong to the National Association of Official Prison Visitors (formerly National Association of Prison Visitors) which oversees prison visiting in all prisons, holds regional conferences, produces a bi-annual News Letter and has an annual AGM in London. |
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New Bridge Foundation |
| New Bridge was founded in 1956 to create links between the offender and the community. The intention is not to forget the victims of crime but to prevent more people becoming victims.
New Bridge offers a wide range of programmes to help prisoners keep in touch with the outside world and prepare themselves to rejoin it. |
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Newbridge Foundation |
| New Bridge offers a wide range of programmes to help prisoners keep in touch with the outside world and prepare themselves to rejoin it. Our original and keynote service remains the friendship and support given by our 203 volunteers to longer-term prisoners, especially those no longer in contact with family and friends. Every volunteer knows his or her prisoner client as an individual with their own personality, problems and potential and values them as such. The relationship cannot otherwise work. |
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NOMS (National Offender Management Service) |
| A relatively new Home Office department set up to bring together the work of correctional services and manage the management of offenders |
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Offender Health |
| Offender Health is a partnership between the Ministry of Justice and the Department of Health, working to improve the standard of healthcare for offenders. |
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Outside Chance |
| Outside Chance currently presents full afternoon behaviour challenging workshops - 'A Career In Crime?' - in HM YOI Huntercombe with 15-18 year old juvenile remandees and offenders. You can write to them at Suite G6, Britannia House, 11 Glenthorne Road, London, W6 0LH, telephone 020 8563 7700 or email ianoutsidechance@aol.com |
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Pics for Prisoners |
| A photo delivery service to serving prisoners |
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Prison Advice & Care Trust (PACT) |
| The Prison Advice & Care Trust (pact) is an independent charity which supports people affected by imprisonment. They work with children and families of prisoners, and with prisoners inside and on release. They want a safer, more humane society. |
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Prison Chat UK |
| AN online community for people who have a loved one in custody. |
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Prison Phoenix Trust |
| The Prison Phoenix Trust encourages prisoners in the development of their spiritual welfare, through the practices of meditation and yoga, working with silence and the breath. We offer personal support to prisoners around the UK and the Republic of Ireland through teaching, workshops, correspondence, books and newsletters - and to prison staff too. We work with people of any faith, or of none, and honour all religions. We are a registered UK charity. |
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Prisoner Action Net |
| PrisonerActionNet helps organisations to strengthen identity and belonging in prisoners and ex-offenders. The site is supported financially by the Monument Trust, one of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, and is based on research conducted by Lemos&Crane in conjunction with CLINKS, the national membership body for voluntary and community organisations in the criminal justice system. |
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Prisoner Location Service |
| If you wish to trace someone who you believe is in prison custody but do not know his or her exact whereabouts the Prisoner Location Service can help you. |
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Samaritans - Listener Scheme |
| The Listener Scheme is a peer support scheme whereby selected prisoners are trained and supported by Samaritans, using their same guidelines, to listen in complete confidence to their fellow prisoners who may be experiencing feelings of distress or despair, including those which may lead to suicide. Samaritans provides confidential non-judgemental emotional support, 24 hours a day, for people who are worried, upset, confused, dispairing or suicidal. Phone 08457 90 90 90 or e-mail jo@samaritans.org. For any questions about the Samaritans Listener scheme, contact Samaritans, The Upper Mill, Kingston Road, Ewell, Surrey, KT17 2AF or email admin@samaritans.org. |
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South West Reducing Reoffending Partnership |
| The Reducing Re-offending Partnership South West was formed in 2003, making it the first working partnership of its kind in England. It aims to bring together a collaborative, partnership approach in order to reduce re-offending. Liz Hill Regional Offender Manager, is the Chief Officer of the Partnership Delivery Board, which comprises of an independent Chair, Deep Sagar and senior managers from a diverse range of agencies. |
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St Giles Trust |
| St Giles Trust run a variety of projects in prisons and in the community, designed to help people get back on track and not re-offend |
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Storybook Dads |
| Storybook Dads is a registered charity based in Dartmoor Prison. Our aim is to maintain family ties and facilitate learning for prisoners and their children through the provision of story CDs. |
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String of Pearls |
| Giving a voice to people with a loved one inside. |
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The Community Chaplaincy Project |
| The community chaplaincy project was born from a need to help reduce re-offending by reintegrating ex-offenders back in to their local communities using the established skills and expertise in the Faith Community Voluntary Sector. |
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The Forgiveness Project |
| The Forgiveness Project is a UK-based charitable organisation which explores forgiveness, reconciliation and conflict resolution through real-life human experience. Many of those whose voices are celebrated in our exhibition and on this website, also share their stories in person. We work in prisons, schools, faith communities, and with any group who want to explore the nature of forgiveness whether in the wider political context or within their own lives |
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The Foundation Training Company |
| SOME FACTS ABOUT THE FOUNDATION TRAINING COMPANY
FTC is a not for profit organisation that specialises in crime reduction through resettlement and reintegration of offenders.
FTC has been working in partnership with the prison service for over ten years seeking to break the cycle of offending and set those being released from custody on a path to a lawful future.
FTC works in prisons delivering bespoke programmes aimed at reducing re-offending by providing information, advice & guidance, liaison with community based agencies and training packages focused on providing realistic opportunities post release.
FTC builds and develops partnerships with other organisations working with serving prisoners and ex-offenders with the sole aim of providing the best possible outcome for the individuals with whom we work.
FTC is reaching into the community by opening Foundation Training Centres that can provide continuity of support for those being released from prison and expert advice and training for those serving community sentences or at risk of offending. |
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The Parole Board for England & Wales |
| The Parole Board is an independent body that protects the public by making risk assessments about prisoners to decide who may safely be released into the community and must remain in or be returned to custody |
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The Prison Phoenix Trust |
| The Prison Phoenix Trust works in an original way to reduce offending behaviour by offering weekly yoga and meditation prison classes to inmates and prison staff all over the UK and Eire. The Trust also sends out resource books, CDs and tapes and maintains correspondence with prisoners.
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Vegan Prisoners Support Group |
| The VPSG provides help, support, and information for vegans detained either in police custody or within the prison system. VPSG also try to ensure that the prison vegan diets are nutritionally sound and that vegan clothing, hygiene and bodycare products are made available or can be ordered or sent in to vegan prisoners. Write to them at VPSG, BM 2107, London, WC1N 3XX or email info@vpsg.org |
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Write to Freedom |
| Write to Freedom is a pre- and post-release project for young offenders. The project has two core aims: to help young offenders to reflect on their past actions through memoir writing and, upon their release, to give assistance in continuing to use memoir writing as a means of social and personal development. It is hoped that the attainment of these core aims will, in turn, reduce the possibility of re-offending. |
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Writers in Prison Network |
| They are one of the premier arts in prison organisations in the UK working towards raising self esteem and discovering hidden talents amongst both offenders and staff. |
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