Information and Support is available throughout the year from:
The Scottish Prisoner's Families Helpline
Telephone: 0500 83 93 83 (Freephone)...
Operated by: http://www.familiesoutside.org.uk/
Practical Support and a Prison Visitors Scheme organised by HOPE
Telephone: 0141 552 0229
The Assisted Prison Visits Scheme
Telephone: 0845 300 1423
Prison Fellowship Scotland
(working with prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families)
Telephone: 0141 552 1288
http://www.prisonfellowshipscotland.com/
Prison Fellowship Scotland
110 St James Road
Glasgow
G4 0PS
email: prisonfellowship@lineone.net
Vicitm Support Scotland
(the leading charity that provides support to victimes and witnesses of crime)
Helpline Telephone: 0845 603 9213
International Commission for Catholic Prison Pastoral Care (ICCPCC) http://www.iccpcc.org/
Integrate is a Community Chaplaincy providing a bridge between prison and community. It is based in Aberdeen and the Community Chaplain is Caroline Crombie, who can be contacted on 01224 625487
Caroline says:
"Our mission is to relieve the needs of those in Scotland who have experienced disadvantage as a result of their offending behaviour by providing support, information and advocacy, as a practical outworking of the Christian faith."
"The concept of community chaplaincy is based on the understanding that intensive befriending and mentoring of offenders, by the community chaplain and volunteers, can lead to a quantifiable reduction in the rate of re-offending behaviour."
"We are passionate about providing offenders with a positive support network as they seek to break away from a life of crime. This support can start within the prison as they prepare for release and continue as they return to society."
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Past and Present Prisoner's Week Leaflets can be viewed and downloaded below:
Prisoners Week Postcard 2008
Prisoners Week Leaflet 2007
Prisoners Week Leaflet 2006
Prisoners Week Leaflet 2005
Prisoners Week Leaflet 2004