J. R. Woodgates
The “findings” seem so obvious, yet so few inmates benefit from them.
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The second-fastest growing church in the USA is fast advancing the Kingdom of God behind bars.
Incarceration remains at record levels in the US, yet most pastors say they have no contact with present or former inmates in their congregations. What’s wrong with this picture?
Fostering this kind of inmate-to-inmate ministry is exactly what Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path is all about.
The Colson Task Force was established by Congressional mandate in 2014 as a nine‐person, bipartisan, blue-ribbon panel charged with developing practical, data-driven recommendations to enhance public safety by creating a more just and efficient federal corrections system.
When ranking a list of morally objectionable items, teens and young adults said not recycling was more unacceptable than viewing pornographic images.
Most pastors (57%) and youth pastors (64%) admit they have struggled with porn, either currently or in the past. Overall, 21 percent of youth pastors and 14 percent of pastors admit they currently struggle with using porn.
Is it any wonder that so many clergy and church workers are being arrested for viewing illegal images?
After 20 years and countless reforms at one of America’s worst prisons, Burl Cain is now facing criminal charges of his own. But his legacy is a godly one.
If the United States released all drug offenders from federal and state prisons, the country would still have the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world — by a significant margin.
Changes are likely coming soon to the laws governing sentencing and mandatory minimums. But how many current and future prisoners will actually be affected?
The Obama Administration will soon announce the return of Pell Grants for federal prisoners. Those with fewer than five years left on their time will be able to pay for classes taught by accredited colleges.
Here’s what a professor of philosophy and religious studies at Maryland’s Goucher College has discovered teaching prisoner’s about the Bible:
We know without doubt that the vast majority of innocent defendants who are convicted of crimes are never identified and cleared.
Most prisoners are guilty. What about the innocent who deserve a break?