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We're here to help you however we can.

If it is urgent, please call us. If you are contacting us about an overseas imprisonment, our contact us form is otherwise the best way for us to respond to your enquiry if you need help but it is not urgent - please fill this out and one of the team will get back to you within 7 working days. 

For contact details for individual teams and more information about our telephone helpline opening hours, please see below.

Contact our Prisoner and Family Support team

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Our phone lines are normally open between (UK times):

9.30am and 1pm on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and
9.30am and 4.30pm on Tuesday and Thursday

Freephone from UK 0808 172 0098 / Standard rate 0044 (0)20 7561 6820 - Select option 1

If you prefer, or you are outside the UK, please email us: [email protected]

(Please note that we aim to reply to emails within 7 working days) 

If you are consular staff, please email: [email protected] 

For urgent enquiries about imprisonment outside the UK, please contact your nearest British Embassy / Consulate / High Commission, or the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) in London (whom you can also ask to transfer you to a British Embassy overseas):

(00 44) (0)20 7008 5000 (24 hours)

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/arrested-or-detained-abroad

Published: 1st March, 2020

Updated: 25th March, 2026

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Our phone lines are normally open between 9.30am and 4.30pm (UK time), Monday to Friday:

Freephone from UK: 0808 172 0098 / Standard rate 0044 (0) 20 7561 6820 - Select option 2

You can also email us: [email protected]

Outside these times, if you don’t have anywhere to stay tonight, please contact Shelter for advice:

0808 800 44 44 (8am - 6pm, Monday to Friday)

https://england.shelter.org.uk/get_help 

Other organisations that may be able to help

Streetlink

If you are at risk of being street homeless you should call Streetlink:

The nationwide telephone number for StreetLink is 0300 500 0914. This 24/7 service connects people who are sleeping rough, or those concerned about someone who is, to local support and outreach teams in England and Wales. 

StreetLink - Connecting people sleeping rough to local services

The Passage Day Centre

The Passage is a homeless support agency that operates from Victoria: tel 020 7592 1850

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Published: 5th March, 2020

Updated: 8th January, 2026

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[email protected]

020 7561 6820 - Select option 3

Published: 8th March, 2020

Updated: 20th March, 2025

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[email protected]

020 7561 6820 - select option 5 (office hours)

Learn more about our work with the press:

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Published: 12th March, 2020

Updated: 6th May, 2025

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Our office is open by appointment only.

Prisoners Abroad | 89-93 Fonthill Road | London | N4 3JH

We are a one-minute walk from Finsbury Park underground station, which is on the Piccadilly and Victoria lines and National Rail. From the station, take the City North exit and turn right. When you meet Wells Terrace, turn left until the end of the road. When you meet Fonthill Road, turn right and walk about 100 metres until you reach the London Fashion Centre.

Prisoners Abroad is on the first floor. Walk through to the back of the shopping centre and you'll find our office at the top of the stairs. There is a lift to the first floor, if required. 

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Updated: 20th March, 2025

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Please read our list of frequently asked questions for:

Prisoner and family support 

Resettlement

Consular staff

For feedback and complaints:

Please find our process and procedures here

Published: 20th March, 2020

Updated: 20th March, 2025

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