It's Prisons Week!

Prisons Week 2019

Prisons Week aims to encourage prayer and awareness of the needs of prisoners and their families, victims of offenders, prisons staff and all those who care, reflected in the Prisons Week Prayer offered throughout the week:

Lord, you offer freedom to all people.
We pray for those in prison.
Break the bonds of fear and isolation that exist.
Support with your love prisoners and their families and friends,
prison staff and all who care.
Heal those who have been wounded by the activities
of others, especially the victims of crime.
Help us to forgive one another.
To act justly, love mercy and walk humbly together with Christ
in His strength and in His Spirit, now and every day. Amen.

Check out the Prisons Week video below.

Find out more and access resources for your Prisons Week - https://prisonsweek.org

This year, the Prisons Week campaign asks, "What does freedom mean to you? And are you free?" We take to the streets to get some answers from the public before heading inside to get a different perspective. For over forty years Prisons Week has prepared prayer literature for the Christian community to use as they pray for the needs of all those affected by prisons: prisoners and victims, their families, their communities, those working and volunteering in prisons and the criminal justice system. Please pray each day during Prisons Week but also ask yourself whether there is one thing that you as an individual, or as a church, can do to help any of the people that you are praying for. www.prisonsweek.org

Bristol based charity Sixty-One have also produced a video about their brilliant work with ex-prisoners. Check it out:

Ex-prisoners and Sixty-One staff talk about rehabilitation and the work of the charity.