Service for Prisoners sets standards of excellence in the way it conducts its Annual General Meeting.

Its AGM, which took place on 8 July, commenced with a Mass concelebrated by six priests five of them prison chaplains, at their offices in the Old Brompton Road, London, followed by a brief social buffet, and straight down to business.
The CSSP performs miracles on a tiny budget. Its objects are to assist prisoners, and exprisoners, to establish themselves in the community. It offers support to families during sentence, and its valiant welfare officers provide badly needed counselling and social services, visiting clients in prison and their families in their homes.
The staff of four plus one part-timer in London, and two in Preston, work joyfully under immense pressures. We forget what a strain it is on mothers
and children when the bread winner of the family is in jail.
From the annual report I was happy to note for example that 15 wives and 36 children were given a much needed holiday at Barton-on-Sea. where the headmaster of Durlston Court School made available the school's excellent premises and amenities, including the swimming pool, eight voluntary helpers, with the local CWL assisting.
If you feel you can help the work of the CSSP by voluntary work or cash, contact the director, Neil Ockenden, Catholic Social Services for Prisoners, 189A, Old Brompton Road, London, SW5. Telephone 01-370-6612.
Your help and prayers are very much needed, because, as Lord Justice Lawton, a former honourable secretary of the Society has observed, there is precious little rehabilitation in the present prison system.