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Prison Fellowship International

Prison Fellowship International is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Prison Fellowship International rather than just read about it. In short: Prison Fellowship International (PFI) is a Christian international non-governmental organization of national prison fellowship organizations from 112 countries. The organization is based in Washington, D.C., United States, and its current president is Andy Corley.

Key takeaways

Prison Fellowship International belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Prison Fellowship International to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Prison Fellowship International from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Prison Fellowship International (PFI) is a Christian international non-governmental organization of national prison fellowship organizations from 112 countries. The organization is based in Washington, D.C., United States, and its current president is Andy Corley.

History The organization has its origins in the Prison Fellowship organization, which aims to support prisoners, founded in 1976 by Charles W. Colson, a former politician imprisoned for his involvement in the Watergate scandal. In November 1978, a meeting was held in Great Britain for the formation of a British antenna and to give an international dimension to the organization. Prison Fellowship International was officially founded in 1979, and works in 112 countries as of 2022.

Programs

Bible studies For prisoners, groups of Bible studies are offered.

Assisting children and families of prisoners Prison Fellowship International runs a child sponsorship program which aims to help needy children of prisoners with support in education and health care. The Angel Tree Program is an outreach to the children of prisoners at Christmas. Members of local churches volunteer to sponsor these children by purchasing a gift based on information gathered by PF volunteers and prison chaplains.

Restorative justice Through the PFI Centre for Justice and Reconciliation, PFI seeks to promote the principles and practices of restorative justice—an approach to justice focusing on healing broken relationships, repairing the damage done by crime, and restoring the offender to a meaningful role in society. The centre operates Restorative Justice Online and provides information and consultation to national PF organizations, governments, the United Nations, and other organizations. The PF restorative justice program is known as either the Sycamore Tree Project or Umuvumu Tree Project. Notably, in Rwanda, in response to the genocide of 1994, Prison Fellowship introduced the Umuvumu Tree Project through 11,000 traditional courts, resulting in more than 32,000 genocide offenders confessing to their crimes. 23 PF national ministries ran the STP in 2009.

Promoting faith-based prisons Based on APAC, the Brazilian model of faith-based prison communities, national PF organizations are adapting their own APAC projects. These faith-based prison communities are presently operating in 16 countries.

Consultation As an NGO, PFI maintains Consultative Status (Category II) with the UN Economic and Social Council and is an active participant in the Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Prison Fellowship International

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Prison Fellowship International claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Prison Fellowship International before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Prison Fellowship International ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Prison Fellowship International

In research: Prison Fellowship International appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Prison Fellowship International in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Prison Fellowship International is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 501(c)(3) organizations, Evangelical Christian humanitarian organizations, International Christian organizations, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Prison Fellowship International outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Prison Fellowship International in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Prison Fellowship International means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Prison Fellowship International out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Prison Fellowship International in simple terms?

Why does Prison Fellowship International matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Prison Fellowship International?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Prison Fellowship International.