PRISON FELLOWSHIP BLOG: Advocacy & Reentry

The prison population is one of society’s vulnerable communities.

Prison Fellowship and CrossWalk Center are partnering to place Houston-area Academy graduates in living-wage careers.

Volunteer Nancy mentors women awaiting their release from prison. The incarcerated women, however, aren’t the only ones transformed by this mentorship.

Prison Fellowship applauds restoration of access to Pell Grants for incarcerated students seeking to become productive citizens.

“I want so bad to help in the same way that I was helped.” Reentry can bring a whole new set of problems for returning citizens. Prison Fellowship Academy provides prisoners with the tools they need for reentry.

Parole and credit policies can ensure proportional punishment is served while also offering an active and intentional pathway to redemption.

She witnessed her family and others being torn apart by incarceration. Now Erica is using her voice as a Justice Ambassador to help restore similar lives.

Prison Fellowship remembers Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr., a heavyweight in the fight for criminal justice reform and a long-serving member of our board of directors.

Prison Fellowship leadership urges new administration to advance policies helping men and women impacted by crime and incarceration become productive returning citizens.

It’s election year, but not all Americans are eligible to vote. Felony disenfranchisement continues to create second-class citizens out of returning neighbors struggling to rebuild their lives after paying their debt to society.