We deliver prison optometry services and train prisoners in optical skills
Our mission is to help prisoners reform and rehabilitate by providing them with opportunities to work within the Optical sector. We turn Prisoners into Professionals and they produce life-changing products which positively impact the community.
What We Do
We are dedicated to reducing re-offending by training prisoners in optical skills and helping them find paid work in the optics industry. In our first four years, we have helped over 40 prisoners secure employment.
Our Story
Our co-founders are Tanjit Dosanjh OBE and Dr Amandeep Sappal, they studied Optometry together at City University, London. Tanjit’s father commenced a long prison sentence for a serious criminal offence. He visited his father regularly and quickly observed the lack of decent vocational training available to offenders. Our co-founders were encouraged by an optical programme in California’s prisons where one optical lab in 1989 had grown to five labs, manufacturing over 400,000 spectacles. Many offenders had become qualified opticians after leaving the prison.
Our Work
The Prison Opticians Trust has improved prison optician services by producing clinical guidelines and developing emergency eye care technology.
We are dedicated to reducing re-offending by training prisoners in optical skills and helping them find paid work in the optics industry.
