Pagan Prison Programs

Introduction - PPO Prison Ministry Program

Pagan Pastoral Outreach's prison ministry program began in 1994 under the auspices of the Pagan Federation/Fédération païenne Canada (PFPC). In 2003, with the blessing and endorsement of PFPC, the people involved in its prison work formed Pagan Pastoral Outreach to concentrate on this and related ministries.In the past, we have offered visitation programs in Ontario (particularly the Kingston area KP, RTC, Joyceville, Pittsburgh, Bath, Millhaven, Collins Bay, Frontenac and Warkworth), and in the B.C. area (Abbotsford, Kent, Mission, Mountain, William Head, Ferndale, Elbow Lake and Burnaby Women’s Prison) as well as to the CSC chaplaincy headquarters.We also provided long-distance supervision and visitation for a Wiccan chapel group in New Brunswick, and advice to both chaplains and Wiccan inmates in other prisons in the Maritime region.

Unfortunately due to burn-out and health we are no longer able to provide visitation to inmates in most cases.
However, we still act as Pagan spiritual advisor to various inmates and chaplains throughout the CSC prison system;
and on occasion, provincial prisons as well.

We hope that you will make use of the various pages of resources on Pagan Prison Ministry on this website.

PPO has developed a Sabbat Lessons Study Program program which is available to Prison chaplains, and/or inmates free of charage, and that can be requested by contacting us.

Between 2002 and 2005, PPO members co-wrote (with the manual's editor) and/or edited the chapter on Paganism and its various branches, for the CSC Chaplaincy Manual.

We contributed materials for the CSC Restorative Justice Week. In 2003, one of our Elders wrote on Restorative Justice from a Wiccan Perspective for CSC.

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