Corrections recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Prison Fellowship New Zealand.
The memorandum acknowledges and formalises the cooperative relationship between Corrections and Prison Fellowship and provides ways to promote and manage it.
It recognises that we cannot improve public safety and reduce re-offending on our own and that strengthening our important partnerships is one of the key ways we will achieve these aims.
Prison Fellowship is backed by a solid network of church-based volunteers who make up around 86 per cent of Corrections’ volunteer base.
It also delivers programmes in the cooperatively run faith-based unit at Rimutaka Prison, and offers the Operation Jericho programme in which volunteers mentor ex-prisoners released from the faith-based unit.
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