This week, award-winning current-affairs radio programme File on 4 interviewed Pact CEO Andy Keen-Downs about the reality of living with mental ill health in prison. Read more
Pact is seeking to commission an evaluation for the Routes2Change programme at HMP/YOI Isis based on our 'Theory of Change'. The deadline for submissions is 27th May 2022. Read more
One of the UK’s largest grant-making charities, Benefact Trust, has awarded the Prison Advice & Care Trust (Pact) funds to recruit and train a new cohort of specialist volunteers who will work with prisoners, people with convictions, and their families throughout the southeast of England to help them to make a fresh start. Read more
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Pact, together with voluntary sector partners and the Ministry of Justice’s Local Leadership and Integration Fund, is launching a new project supporting women leaving HMP Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire. Read more
Together a Chance is a pilot programme of prison-based social workers whose role is to maintain children’s links with their mothers in custody. Read more
Independent think tank The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has today published its report, ‘The Golden Thread: Putting family at the heart of the criminal justice system’. Read more
Tina was anxious about leaving prison. Her Journeys to Freedom keyworker supported her both before and after relase to give her the confidence needed to adjust to the outside world. Read more
Our JustPeople Roadsghows offer a lively and nourishing day of learning, refection, and action ideas. Read more
A peer support group is a group of people with similar experiences that come together to support each other in a group setting. All members of the group will have had experiences of a loved one either in prison or involved in the Criminal Justice System. Read more
Pact’s pioneering initiative ‘Journeys to Freedom’ supports women leaving prison in London and Kent, both immediately before release and for up to three months following their release. Read more
Our 2022 Sir Harold Hood Memorial Lecture explored 'Reimagining Human Dignity in Dark Times'. Missed the lecture? Listen to the audio recording now. Read more