Prison Fellowship has partnered with other Christian and prison rights groups across the political spectrum to lobby Attorney General Eric Holder to adopt standards established out of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. Nolan was part of the panel which put together a set of standards to help facilities from local jails up to federal prisons stem the tide of prison rape.
Pat Nolan knows a few things about prison.
A former Republican leader in the California State Assembly, Nolan was convicted of racketeering for accepting an illegal campaign contribution as part of a FBI sting. In the late 1980s he spent 25 months in federal prison.
Nolan took what he learned about prison from his incarceration and partnered it up with his faith as the vice president of Prison Fellowship, a broad-based evangelical ministry headed by former Nixon aide and Watergate figure Chuck Colson, who like Nolan, turned time in jail into a ministry.
Nolan heads up the Justice Fellowship, which advocates for improved conditions and programming for inmates to improve their chances of success when re-entering society.
Prison Fellowship has partnered with other Christian and prison rights groups across the political spectrum to lobby Attorney General Eric Holder to adopt standards established out of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. Nolan was part of the panel which put together a set of standards to help facilities from local jails up to federal prisons stem the tide of prison rape.