Mental health in prisons

Denise Renshaw reports on the recent Quaker Prison Chaplains’ Conference at Woodbrooke

by Denise Renshaw 30th October 2015

It was a privilege, as ever, to be able to attend the Quaker Prison Chaplains’ Conference, which was held at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham 16-18 October. The theme of the conference was ‘Mental health in prisons’. In our opening worship on the first evening Quaker faith & practice 23.101, by John Lampen, was read. The words spoke to all of us about how limited is the value of incarceration of offenders.