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Websites

Please note that MTAG and CTBI are not responsible for the content of any external websites.

Global

  • Amnesty International
    A campaigning organisation whose purpose is to protect people wherever justice, fairness, freedom and truth are denied.
  • Protect the Human
    Website to take action on unjust imprisonment issues
  • Prisoners of Conscience
    A charity which makes grants to prisoners of conscience and tries to help them
  • United Nations Human Rights
    Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, explaining what human rights are and how they should be protected

UK

  • National Federation of Miscarriage of Justice Campaign
    UAI is an association of independent member organisations set up to federate miscarriage of justice campaigns, support groups and organisations. It provides advice, support and information to its members. UAI does not promote individual cases.
  • Innocent
    INNOCENT is a Manchester-based organisation which supports and campaigns for alleged victims of wrongful conviction and imprisonment. It comprises of families, friends and supporters of prisoners who have come together to help each other.
  • FASO
    FASO is a voluntary organisation set up to provide information, practical advice and support for anyone affected by false allegations of abuse.
  • FACT
    FACT is a UK wide voluntary organisation which exists to support carers, teachers and other professionals falsely accused or wrongly convicted of abuse, and to lobby for change in investigative practice and in the criminal justice system.
  • SAFARI
    SAFARI is a non-profit organisation established to provide useful information to those who are in a position to make changes to the criminal justice system, and those who have been affected by false accusations including families and friends of victims.
  • Black mental Health UK
    BMH UK is a human rights campaign group which was established in 2006. Also an online publisher, BMH UK exists to educate and inform the communities over represented within custodial settings and detained setting about policy development and equipping the communities affected by these issues to lobby for positive change.
Media: suggestions for films, books and music
Rations: share a prison meal
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Navigating the pathways

From here, you can travel as a visitor through a number of pathways through the various cell-spaces finding out what it is like to be an inmate here.

You can mix and match your journey through the different spaces depending on what you would most like to explore, study or do.

Yellow Blue Green Pink

Holding Cell

  • Welcome and warning
  • Guantanamo Bay

Solidarity through Scripture

  • Psalm 107, 142
  • Isaiah 42
  • Matthew 25
  • Acts 5,12,16
  • Hebrews 13

Art

  • Images of imprisonment
  • Game – free the prisoner

Detention

  • Gift giving/Baggage
  • Dumping
  • Confession

Trial

Voices from and about imprisonment

Hope in time of darkness

  • Prayers
  • For those in prison, justice authorities, hostages, condemned

Resources

  • Websites for research
  • Amnesty

House arrest

  • Diary/blog
  • Review journal entries

Conviction

  • Excerpt from Unreconciled?
  • News article about Liu Xiaobo

Finding a way to Freedom

Music - Songs, Hymns, Classical music

DVD

Films, books, CDs

Parole

  • Footsteps of Jesus
  • Passion of Jesus in John's gospel

Condemned cell

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Fr Maximilian Kolbe

Room 101

Reflections
  • Woza
  • Fr Kolbe
  • Brian Keenan
  • Andy McNab

Rations

Porridge

Release

Empty your rucksack, and fill it with what? Will you be able to leave?
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