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PF National Organisations Working with Aftercare
Up one levelThroughout the world, PF national organisations have discovered the importance of assisting prisoners in preparing for release from prison and in the struggle for reintegration once they are released. These articles highlight some of the working being done.
- Focus on Prisoner Reintegration
- The PF New Zealand 2007 annual conference, When Prisoners Come Home… A Community Response to Prisoner Reintegration, highlighted the many issues surrounding a prisoner’s release from prison.
- Caring for Ex-Prisoners in Namibia
- Prisoners leaving prison face many challenges such as disconnection from life in their communities; estrangement from family members; lack of job skills; and scars from their imprisonment. To help ex-prisoners successfully overcome these challenges, PF Namibia created a halfway house programme to serve as a residential rehabilitation programme for ex-prisoners.
- Preparing Prisoners for Release
- In the state of Entre Rios, Prison Fellowship Argentina, Catholic Prison Pastoral, Baptist Prison Ministry, “Patronato de Liberados” (parole) are working together in the provision of a pre-release programme for prisoners who are ninety days from obtaining conditional release.
- Helping Ex-Offenders Re-Enter Society in Malawi
- In January 2005, PF Malawi opened a halfway house to assist ex-prisoners in the transition from prison to community life.