You Made Christmas
In the run up to Christmas, Families Outside was delighted to receive a large number of gifts from organisations, community groups, individuals, and churches including Greyfriars Church in Lanark and the Swanshine Project in Edinburgh. We gave these gifts to children of the families we support and to children visiting prisons in Scotland during the Christmas period. One […]
Stronger Families Inside Out
Stronger Families Inside Out Grampian leads the way in promoting family ties. Families Outside, the only organisation in Scotland to work exclusively on behalf of families affected by imprisonment, has created a new partnership with the Denis Law Legacy Trust to help children build better relationships with their parents in prison. Scottish Government figures estimate […]
Creating A Smoke Free Prison Environment
Creating A Smoke Free Prison Environment The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has announced its intention for all prisons in Scotland to be smoke free by the end of 2018. In 2013 the Scottish Government published their tobacco control strategy, ‘Creating a Tobacco-free Generation’, in which it was recognised that creating a smoke-free Prison Service was […]
Prisoners Week – The Hope Within 2017
Prisoners’ Week is a churches’ initiative that aims to celebrate and raise awareness of the work in Scotland to support prisoners and their families. This year, the theme has been Hope Within and throughout the week the National Prison Visitors Centre Steering Group has encouraged family members and friends who visit people in prison to […]
Is there a full stop at the end of a sentence? Not in this case
Is there a full stop at the end of a sentence? Not in this case On the whole, when an individual is arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to prison, society breathes a sigh of relief – the perpetrator is being punished, and the community is being protected. But what about the families that are left […]