J. R. Woodgates
This conversation further explores the inequities of prison sentencing and whether the disproportionate percentage of racial minorities composing the prison population reflects a deliberate effort to disenfranchise such men. (Segment begins at 26:40)
Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black, joins former Prison Fellowship VP Pat Nolan, Senators Rob Portman of Ohio and Al Franken of Minnesota, a Koch Industries spokesman and others, for a refreshingly bi-partisan panel on the current state of prison reform in America.
The vast majority of prison inmates are in state prisons, rather than federal prisons – almost seven times as many.
While reduced sentencing guidelines for non-violent drug offenses will now result in shorter prison sentences for those prosecuted by the feds, the vast majority of criminals are prosecuted by state justice systems.
See how – for them – the likelihood of sentencing reform is remote, at best (unless they live in Texas):
Bobby Bowers’s testimony of undeserved grace from God illustrates the principle of restoration Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path promotes: That no matter what anyone’s done or how unworthy his spiritual condition seems to be, God wants to bless him and make him a new creature.