Our missions
Chryzalid is a Swiss non-governmental non-profit organization, active since 2005. We support and promote actions to ensure the respect, dignity and reconstruction of people deprived of their freedom – especially minors – their families and victims.
Our main areas of intervention, inside and outside prisons:
- Supporting the most disadvantaged and combating their marginalization
- Supporting the children and families of prisoners
- Promoting restorative justice and taking victims into account
- Improving detention conditions
- Promoting social and family cohesion
- Reintegration and support after release from prison
- Preventing delinquency and avoiding recidivism
- Raising public awareness of prison-related issues
Chryzalid mainly develops the initiatives of the National Prison Fraternities, created at the instigation of Charles Colson, a former special advisor to President Nixon, who was himself incarcerated after the Watergate affair.
Around 140 of these national associations are members of the International Prison Fellowship, recognized by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Chryzalid is active in a number of countries in the South and East.
