J. R. Woodgates
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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.
John Turnipseed’s extended family included generations of violent criminals, including killers. Today more than 90% of them are living free – because John learned how to break the bloodline curses that had driven them – and him – into serious crime and prison time.
Danny Duchene got out of California’s prison system after 32 years, thanks to Rick Warren. Now, he’s hired Duchene as Saddleback Church’s director of Prison Ministries. It’s quite a story.
This testimony glorifies God but makes some people very jealous. Just rejoice with this man and pray for the same degree of grace for yourself and everyone else you know who needs it!
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.
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:
Almost murdered by his mom, left permanently disfigured, with his dad in prison, Demetrius Guyton ended up in prison, himself. That’s where a Christian inmate shared God’s Word with Demetrius, leading to a life-changing encounter with God.
Watch this former head-busting drug slinger tell how receiving unexpected fierce love from a few Christians brought him to repentance…and a new sense of purpose. Then he entered California’s state prison system. Although he never read Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path, his amazing ministry to fellow inmates modeled what readers of my book can also do.
Not only priests minister behind bars. Catholic laity and religious can also have a huge influence on the spiritual lives of locked up men.