PRISON FELLOWSHIP'S FEDERAL HISTORY

For over 30 years, Prison Fellowship has been active on Capitol Hill, lobbying Congress to support reforms to make communities safer, respect victims, and transform lives. Prison Fellowship played a leading role in working with Members of Congress to pass groundbreaking criminal justice reforms, including the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (1993), the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (2000), the Prison Rape Elimination Act (2000), Second Chance Act (2008), the Fair Sentencing Act (2010), the establishment of the Chuck Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections (2014), and the 21st Century Cures Act (2016). Several Members of Congress belong to Prison Fellowship’s Faith & Justice Fellowship, a bipartisan body of policymakers motivated by their various faith traditions to advance restorative values in the criminal justice system.

ADVANCING HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH INTERNATIONAL PRISON REFORM

Read Prison Fellowship's Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy Craig DeRoche's Testimony before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Advancing Human Rights Through International Prison Reform Hearing (Jan. 17, 2018).

TESTIMONY OF HEATHER RICE-MINUS BEFORE THE UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION

Presented on March 14, 2018, by Heather Rice-Minus, vice president of government affairs at Prison Fellowship. This testimony was given before the United States Sentencing Commission during a public hearing on proposed amendments to the sentencing guidelines for first offenders and alternatives to incarceration.