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35 Years of Helping Prisoners

More than fifteen Prison Fellowship organisations around the world are operating faith-based prison units that offer invaluable spiritual and moral training to inmates.

APAC-Offering Hope for the Burdened

Ten years ago, Roberto was burdened by despair and hopelessness. The source of his misery, however, wasn’t the 25-year prison sentence he was serving, or even having to share a cell with 30 other prisoners in a space built for just six. His anguish came from a place within him that felt utterly unloved. “I began to believe that people didn’t love me, that my family no longer loved me, that even God didn’t love me anymore,” he now recalls. “I believed I was the trash of society, with no value,” he adds.

Growing Interest in Innovative Prison Management System

Prison Fellowship affiliates are running prison regimes that represent unique changes in prison management. These changes are based of the methodology developed by the Association for Protection and Assistance to the Convicted (APAC), the PF affiliate in Brazil. The APAC methodology creates a strong community environment among prisoners and volunteers that fosters spiritual, behavioral and lifestyle changes.