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Brazil
Up one level- A Life-Saving Prison
- Jefferson knows about the lure of crime. Like so many ex-prisoners, he discovered that freedom from confinement does not mean freedom from problems. When he left prison at the age of 32, Jefferson had to find a job despite the stigma of a prison sentence and Brazil’s 9 percent unemployment rate. With 31 percent of Brazilians living below the poverty line, few seem to have sympathy for the prisoner.
- 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.