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The judging has taken place for the 2010 Prisoners Abroad Award for Overseas Art, part of the Koestler Awards. Click the link above to find out who the winners are.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has issued a report on its recent visit to Ecuador confirming that prisoners are not given 'adequate nourishment'.

We have two Account Manager positions available in our External Affairs team: one managing our Trust, Statutory and Corporate Income, and the other working with High Net Worth Donors.

An exciting Trust and Statutory Fundraiser position is currently available at Prisoners Abroad. Do you want to help in our vital work?

Next month three of our staff are heading out to Thailand to visit British prisoners there, and to meet with local prison officials. There are currently over 70 Britons held in the country.

An exciting Trust and Statutory Fundraiser position based in our London office is currently available at Prisoners Abroad.

New data released by the FCO reveals that 1057 of the 2,582 British nationals detained overseas at the end of September 2009 were held on drugs charges.

We've recently published our Annual Review for the latest financial year. As well as providing our latest accounts, this report also contains two first-hand stories from people we've helped over the last twelve months.

This edition features one mother’s account of discovering that her son had been arrested in Barbados, a description of the transfer process from Japan to the UK, and a full-colour 2010 calendar.

At a recent event for Prisoners Abroad at Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke of his strong interest in criminal justice, and how the way society treats prisoners is a reflection on the condition of the society itself.

Paintings by two Britons imprisoned overseas are to be shown at a major London art exhibition. The paintings will be displayed as part of the Koestler Trust’s ‘Art by Offenders’ show at the Royal Festival Hall from 21 October.

Kevin was a novice in the art field, only starting whilst in prison in France. That didn't stop him winning a prestigious award in 2008. This year, back home in England, he was asked to judge the same award which he had won just 12 months earlier.