J. R. Woodgates
This is the kind of transition I’d like to see take place in the lives of men who read – and apply – Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path! Whether or not they are actually guilty of having committed a crime should not matter.
Our lazy American culture of single parenting, sloppy schooling, and a preoccupation with non-stop entertainment, sports, video games and self-gratification has produced an unprecedented number of young men unfit for work, marriage, the military or much else. Fattening frogs for snakes.
Isn’t looking at porn no worse than having a few drinks in a bar, smoking a legal joint, visiting a strip club, betting on horses or playing a slot machine? Why can’t we just accept it along with such other “little vices?” A new survey on pornography in America suggests why we shouldn’t accept it:
The Director of Chaplains for the TDCJ personally recommends Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path to his 110 unit chaplains.
By getting real about their serious failings, we can better understand how God’s grace can work in our own lives – and those of prisoners.
If every inmate with “father issues” was to be healed and released, most correctional facilities would have to be either consolidated or closed.
New York’s Seventies-era “Rockefeller Drug Laws” were among the most punitive anti-crime, anti-drug legislation ever passed.
Today in many parts of the USA, civil rights advocates condemn overly-aggressive practices used by police to enforce similar laws, saying they too often target poor and inner-city blacks for punishment.
In his book, Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment, political scientist Michael Javen Fortner uncovers the inconvenient truth that the impetus behind the adoption of those harsh Rockefeller laws came mostly from black residents, themselves, in Harlem and other black and minority inner-city neighborhoods where rehabilitation-oriented policies of the day were often seen as being too soft on drug pushers and other neighborhood criminals.
Fortner…is hoping to complicate the story that the Rockefeller laws, and others like them, were foisted on black people by white people.
If moral imperatives aren’t enough to restrain you, then Microsoft’s stealthy detection software might curb your enthusiasm (I sure hope so).
Once it detects such photos, it can immediately remove them and report them to law enforcement, then remove the user’s account.
Christianity Today tackles that question in its latest edition.
After being wrongly convicted of murdering his girlfriend’s parents more than 30 years ago, he became a Christian. He has written several brilliant books about prison life, biblical justice and the criminal justice system – some of which I recommend in Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path.
Coming Soon: The Soering Movie, The Promise