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"I did everything but join a gang," Roderick McNeely remembers. "I was trying to kill myself."
"I can't believe you want to know my story. No one has ever asked me my story. No one has ever cared before."
In high school, Mary Kay Beard placed at the top of her graduating class. A few years down the road, she was on the FBI's top ten most-wanted list.
Beau is an Angel Tree Camping® volunteer who spent four years stationed in Hawaii for the military. For three of those years he served as a mentor at Camp Agape, a summer camp founded as a ministry to prisoners' children. Beau has since taken the model of Camp Agape to start a camp in Arkansas.
Hope still bears the scars of her birth parents' war with addiction. Heroin and alcoholism left her childhood marked with abandonment, isolation, and worthlessness. Even after she was adopted, Hope struggled with thoughts of suicide.
In a back room at Denver Women's Correctional Facility (DWCF), five jet-black robes slip over prison uniforms.
The following article was originally published in Winter 2017 edition of Inside Journal. Inside Journal is a quarterly newspaper published by Prison Fellowship® just for prisoners.
This article is reprinted here with permission.
"I was the guy who needed a project like this," says Dennis Avila.
By Randy Anderson, as told to Emily Andrews
Randy Anderson will be speaking at Prison Fellowship®'s annual Second Chances 5K in St. Paul, Minnesota, this spring. The 5K raises awareness for those in need of a second chance. Randy hopes his story of struggle and recovery will inspire others—in and out of prison—to believe that no life is beyond restoration.
"I was certified as an adult when I was 17 years old and have been locked up for the last 15 years," Robert writes from the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Lino Lakes.
Wendi Johnson never thought she'd find herself baking cookies for prisoners. Not after what she'd been through.
Refoundry doesn't really teach skills; it shows people how to develop and use them.
It's safe to say Columbia blue suits David Norman much better than his prison jumpsuit ever did.
He sat in the front row with Columbia University's class of 2016, graduating as the oldest member at age 67.
The Harlem native only had one day of high school under his belt before going to prison for the first time, according to the New York Daily News.
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