by Sam | Jun 16, 2025 | Family Stories
I came across Affect when my partner of over 20 plus happy years had a mental breakdown and committed a violent crime. My life was ripped from under me, my friend, my soul partner, my confidant, my support was no longer with me. I was beside myself inconsolable...
by Sam | Jun 16, 2025 | Family Stories
A change is as good as a rest- so they say. February 14th, 2025, will live in my memory for a while. Like many events since my partners incarceration big events continually punctuate our life like rocks in a desert of eternity. I had not seen him since before...
by Sam | Jun 16, 2025 | Family Stories
I answered the phone to my dad around 8 one Friday morning. It was the end of my son’s first full week at school, and I was in the middle of getting him, and his 18-month-old brother, ready for the short walk to the local village school. I was not, in any way,...
by Sam | Jun 12, 2025 | Family Stories
My AFFECT Telephone Support Worker was a huge source of help and understanding when I was struggling to deal with my sister’s imprisonment. I constantly felt guilty for enjoying doing normal things while she was in prison. Although rationally I knew that she had made...
by Sam | May 22, 2025 | News
Inside this Edition: Notes from CEO, Meeting with Judge Sarah Munro KC, Independent sentencing Review: May 2025 by Carol, Thank you Affect by Service User, Not My Sentence programme, Law students teach prisoners about parole process, Separation from babies in prison,...
