Prisons Week wants to see an end to the human suffering caused by crime and imprisonment – for all those affected. We believe that faith moves mountains, and that prayer moves God. We also believe that when we pray with faith God often moves us to be the answer to those prayers.

We gather together churches and organisations from across the Christian community to issue a call to prayer for change where change is needed. We do this through a week-long campaign each October with print and digital resources, social media, events and media appearances.

Prisons Week is organised and run by 25 sponsoring organisations that come together twice each year as a Members Reference Group, and the smaller Mission Team and other Working Groups who meet monthly to deliver the annual call-to-prayer campaigns. This campaign consists of an advertising poster and prayer leaflet based on the campaign’s theme that maps out each day’s thoughts and prayers. We also produce a film to support and promote the campaign. Inspiration for the theme is drawn from the Lectionary readings for that week to make the material as accessible as possible to the broadest range of Christian traditions.