Restorative Justice
Prison Fellowship national organisations see the restorative justice paradigm as a way of improving the justice systems in their countries by serving victims, offenders and the community.

Communities of Restoration
PF national organisations are working with their governments to develop holistic in-prison programming that includes religious education, life skills training, and vocational training.

Sycamore Tree Project®
Recognizing the needs of crime victims for healing and the need of offenders to take responsibility for their behaviour PF national organisations are implementing the Sycamore Tree Project®. This in-prison restorative justice project brings together unrelated victims and offenders to discuss the impact of crime.

Aftercare
From their work in prison, PF national organisation volunteers see the many challenges ex-prisoners encounter upon release. To meet these needs they are developing programmes such as pre-release mentoring and preparation programmes and non-residential post-release assistance and mentoring programmes.

Advocating for Reform
Justice reform does not happen in a vacuum and many partners are needed in the work. For this reason, PF national organisations in Pacific sponsor justice reform seminars and training sessions on a variety of topics including restorative justice, human rights and best practices in prison. They are also responding to government proposals for new legislation and policy as well as running public awareness campaigns through different media outlets.

All stories from the Pacific
View a listing of all the justice reform news from PF national organisations in the Pacific.

Country listing
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