Friends celebrate landmark prison Meetings

Forty years of Meetings for Worship at the Auburn Correction Facility in New York state have just been marked

by Tara Craig 20th June 2014

A group of American Quakers has just marked forty years of Meetings for Worship at the Auburn Correction Facility in New York state.  The Meetings, which were the first in the state prison system, began in 1974. They started at the request of prisoners who had met Quakers already involved in the prison’s Alternatives to Violence Programme (AVP).