"These programmes are currently suspended pending more long term funding, and a review by the Dept. of Corrections of cost effectiveness in reducing reoffending"

In-Prison Victim Offender Conferences in New Zealand

Up until June 2011, when specific funding for this programme finished, Prison Fellowship faciliated about 20 Victim Offender Conferences per year. The programme involved facilitating safely-structured meetings, usually in prisons, between those who have suffered from a crime, and the actual perpetrators of that crime. Other Restorative Justice Providers have facilitated in-prison victim offender conferences, but Prison Fellowship was the primary service provider until that time.