J. R. Woodgates
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One of my Recommended Readings in Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path is Redeemed Unredeemable, which tells how seven of America’s most notorious murderers, including serial killers, came to Christ in prison.
Really?
How could certified psychopaths like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer or thoroughly brainwashed members of the Manson Family ever sincerely express the true repentance necessary to receive a divine pardon?
The book’s co-author addresses that question on SkyWatch TV.
Christianity Today tackles that question in its latest edition.
The “findings” seem so obvious, yet so few inmates benefit from them.
See also: NATURE’S SOLACE IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
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.
In recent years, federal sentencing guidelines have been revised, resulting in less severe prison terms for low-level drug offenders. But…tens of thousands of inmates who were convicted in the “war on drugs” of the 1980s and 1990s are still behind bars.
The average annual cost of housing a federal inmate in general population is $27,500. The price tag for an older inmate who needs medical care – including expensive drugs and treatment – is $59,000.
THE PAINFUL PRICE OF AGING IN PRISON
Why are we keeping someone behind bars who is bedridden and needs assistance getting out of bed and feeding and clothing himself?
Not only priests minister behind bars. Catholic laity and religious can also have a huge influence on the spiritual lives of locked up men.
Kudos to Kairos Prison Ministry International for going after the hard cases, the worst offenders, the guys no one expects to see restored by God.
Royalties from all retail sales enable me to give away copies of the Recommended Reading titles to prison chaplains, upon request. They also enable me to provide free paperback copies of Daily Light on the Prisoner’s Path to prison ministries for distribution to inmates.
Click HERE and HERE to see who is distributing free copies of DLPP.
For more information, write to:
Prisoner’s Path Books
Post Office Box 32014
Washington, DC 20007
I can be contacted at PrisonersPathBooks@gmail.com.
America’s burgeoning prison population is not being fed just by the “overcriminalization” of our society, with its growing list of felony crimes.
The increasing problem of single-parent households is also creating generations of young men without a strong fatherly influence.
Growing up in a fatherless home is a major predictor of truancy, delinquency and eventual incarceration.
Once thought of mainly as “a black problem,” illegitimate births are now common in all three American racial groups: more than one third of all white babies, more than half of all hispanic babies and nearly three-quarters of all black babies.
Conservative pundit George Will reminds us of the prescient warning given to us a half century ago by the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan: