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PRIMO

PRIMO has designed and now offers a coherent rehabilitative strategy based around three tested Stewardship courses to maximise the rehabilitative effects of faith in prison and minimise the existential risks of incarcerated individuals’ religious choices.

We offer these related courses to prison services in the UK and USA.

PRIMO offers 3 connected courses:

For Correctional Staff

A 3-hour university-endorsed course to help correctional staff tell the difference between productive and destructive forms of faith.

For Incarcerated Individuals

A 12-hour university-endorsed course of Islamic Education to help incarcerated individuals use their faith to turn around their lives.

For Correctional Chaplains

A 40-hour university-endorsed course of Continuing Professional Development to understand the role of religion in prison, and to understand how faith can build rehabilitation.

PRIMO is supported and guided by a world-class team of criminal justice practitioners, leading community figures and theologians from a wide variety of religious traditions.

PRIMO aims to bring about an enduring and tested improvement in the way that religious faith affects life in prison, directed at the sustainable well-being of incarcerated individuals and the professional safety and skill of criminal justice professionals.

The project team

Project Director

Lucy Wilkinson

Lucy Wilkinson

PRIMO Project Director

Email
wilkinsonl7@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+ 44 (0) 7930 413 841

Principal Investigator

Professor Matthew Wilkinson

Professor Matthew Wilkinson

Professor of Religion in Public Life

Email
wilkinsonm8@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+ 44 (0) 7930 413 841