Basic Caring Communities is a project by which a group of volunteers motivated by their Christian faith form a supportive community with a released prisoner who has determined that he wants to turn his life around and stay out of prison.
Currently, three out of five released prisoners are back in prison within two years, and all the odds seem to be stacked against them – particularly if they have no social networks apart from those which got them into trouble in the first place.
At the moment, BaCC is based on Wandsworth and Brixton prisons, but there are plans to set it up in Pentonville too, and need to recruit a cohort of volunteers based in north London.
Visit www.prisonadvice.org.uk/bacc for more information.
