A new law signed last week by New Jersey governor Chris Christie will help provide new employment opportunities for recently released prisoners, according to a story on njtoday.net.
Previous legislation banned any person convicted of a serious crime from working for an employer that held a valid liquor license, unless they had received an employment permit from the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control.
On a recent trip to an Oregon prison, I spent time with a group of inmates. I had the opportunity to encourage them, talk with them, and pray for them.
These men were in dark surroundings, but they were so excited about what God was doing in their lives through the ministry of Prison Fellowship!
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There is more than enough blame in the world to implicate everyone. “Blame games” are part of the air we breathe in human relationships and politics. It is so easy to see where the faults of the world lie and so we blame terrorists, and liberals, and conservatives, and criminals, and the justice system, and leaders, and teachers, and youth, and parents … the list goes on.
Several years ago, a court in Mississippi ordered the state’s Department of Corrections to review its use of solitary confinement, also known as isolation or segregation. The department’s commissioner and a group of high ranking corrections officials created a detailed profile of the type of prisoners they believed should be held in solitary.
Inmates from prisons throughout Australia are participating in a unique program that allows them to show off their artistic talents to those outside the prison walls.
Art from Inside, a program run by Prison Fellowship Australia for over 10 years, provides inmates with an outlet for artistic expression, and a way to work through the issues that have led them to prison.
Recently I visited ministries in Denver, Colorado, that care for the homeless. That city is struggling with the surging population of chronically homeless. It’s gotten so bad that the local government has had to outlaw camping within the city limits.
Why was the CEO of Prison Fellowship Ministries visiting homeless shelters in Denver?
The Board of General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene has announced that the denomination has entered into a partnership with Prison Fellowship, and is committed to increasing the number of its churches that participate in Prison Fellowship’s Angel Tree program.
Sharletta Evans met Raymond Johnson in a Colorado prison. She held his hands—the hands of her son’s killer.
Seventeen years ago, one of those fingers had snaked around a trigger and squeezed it, ending the life of her three-year-old son. The meeting allowed Evans to find closure after a long and difficult grieving process.
Lucius Jenkins could have become a statistic.
When police officers arrested eight year-old Lucius’ father on charges of sexual abuse, he could have gone the way of many other children with incarcerated parents – behavioral problems at school, becoming isolated from friends and family, or even following his father to prison.
At nightfall at a Tijuana state penitentiary, a protest is breaking out. Prisoners, mistreated and forgotten, grow increasingly violent, until the protest is a full-scale riot. Police spill onto the scene immediately. A SWAT team soon follows. None of them can quell the inmates’ anger.
The Lacey Act’s heyday could be over.
In theory, the Lacey Act was intended to stop international poachers by prohibiting plants and animals from being imported if their importation violated a law in the country of origin. In reality, the Act presents two major problems:
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Gina Ray got a speeding ticket. Because she failed to show up in court, and didn’t have the money to pay her $179 ticket, she spent 40 days in jail and now owes $3,170 in court and penalty fees.
As the economy worsens and debt loads increase, federal and local governments are extracting funds wherever they can.