“You feed them”
An article by Lloyd Cooke, CEO of Saltbox and the
Jesus’s challenge to his disciples. Today, at any one time, Saltbox’s 50 staff and 40+ volunteers are helping almost 500 needy local people with housing, loneliness and debt. Changing the world one life at a time..
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Storybook Dads and Mum
From information from Storybook Dads and Mum and t
In UK, 300,000+ children experience the imprisonment of a parent. Storybook enables families to reconnect through magic of storytelling. Helping parents in prison to record bedtime stories, messages for their children on CD or DVD.
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Step Inside the Circle
From Compassion Prison Project
"In prison, you're not supposed to show your weaknesses. But to take each step forward in the circle was a reminder to ourselves that we still have humanity and we want to be loved. Most people on the outside don't understand it."
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Jericho social enterprises
Geoff Knott
Providing people with work, training in their social businesses, projects. They are breaking barriers, changing lives. 7 businesses offering goods, services to their communities and employment to local people who need it most.
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The Skill Mill
From an article by The Skill Mill
Working with young offenders, changing their identity from one of offender to an employee with legitimate income, self-respect and a desire to change their behaviour and contribute positively to society and the economy.
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A second chance company
Geoff Knott
Many employees who join Nehemiah Manufacturing just need a chance to prove themselves. "If I had to describe it in one word, it would be grace. When society deems that we are out of chances, Nehemiah gives us another chance."
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Teaching prisoners coding
From the Code 4000 initiative
"It’s rare to meet so many passionate learners, and their drive is humbling and contagious to be around. Graduates are now working as programmers, product managers..."
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In-Person - Howard League Scotland Lecture 2025: "Towards Humane Prisons" - Edinburgh
@Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College, South Bridge
The current situation in Scotland’s prisons forces us to confront some important points and to ask ourselves some vital questions. It gives us the opportunity to review and rethink the state’s intentions regarding imprisonment and to reflect upon what a humane prison estate could and should look like.
Incarcerating people brings with it great responsibility and society clearly benefits when prisons work well. The vast majority of detainees will be released into society, and programmes designed to support their growth and integration with the community help to reduce crime, increase public safety and lower the financial and human costs of detention.
How can everyone involved be empowered to play an active role in establishing humane prisons when generations of approaches have been designed to take away rather than support agency?
25/11/2025
18:30