| Description | Includes:
-notes on an informal meeting held at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in May 2000 to re-convene the Warwickshire Monthly Meeting Penal Affairs Group - includes a brief explanation of the work undertaken by those present at the meeting in the community justice system
-a report by Mike Nellis, member of the Ecumenical Group on Women in Prison, submitted to the Home Office (Jan 2001) entitled 'Kids are the Issue: Sentence deferral and the use of custody for women offenders'
-sample programme of events, correspondence reports and minutes from Reading, Balby and Chester and Wirral Monthly Meeting Community Justice Groups which were sent to Rosemary Ellis to establish how the other Britain Yearly Meeting Community Justice Groups function.
-information folder for 'The Retreat' a not-for-profit organisation in York providing specialist mental health care, which was established in 1796 by the Quaker William Tuke, a retired tea merchant. It was originally established as a place for Quakers who were experiencing mental distress to go to so that they could recover in a humane and sympathetic environment. It is still owned and managed by the Religious Society of Friends. |