PILLARS Inc, a registered charity with the Charities Commission  has recently published a manual for organisations working with children of prisoners. “The charity (No. CC 23953), registered on 6 May 2006, has just completed “ground-breaking in-depth research on ‘A Study of Children of Prisoners’ in New Zealand. The research [which took more than two years to complete], looked at the impacts of arrest, sentence, and imprisonment of a parent on the children. A core goal of the project was to understand the situation and needs of the children of prisoners, so that the cycle of crime for the next generation can be stopped, and to bring down prisoner numbers by reduction in crime.” (Challenge Weekly, 3 October 2011, p. 3). [Read more…]