PRISON FELLOWSHIP BLOG: Advocacy & Reentry

Heroes Act includes additional funding for reentry, COVID-19 response, and allows entrepreneurs with a criminal past access to the Paycheck Protection Program.

We believe our current method of determining pretrial detention through monetary bail can be replaced with more just, evidence-based approaches.

Hillsong NYC ran a 280-mile relay from Manhattan to Washington, DC. to raise money for Prison Fellowship’s criminal justice reform efforts.

Half of Michigan’s jailed population—some 8,000 people—are awaiting trial. Many of them don’t need to be incarcerated. Tell lawmakers you support pretrial reform.

Through a Second Chance Pell Grant pilot, Carai is overcoming his past and mapping a bright new future.

Even though we live in a world of instant communication through email, text messages, and social media, keeping in touch with America’s 2.2 million prisoners isn’t easy. But a new partnership is helping to change that.

Because Marcus Bullock was given a second chance, his business Flikshop is connecting families separated by prison walls and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Senators Portman and Cardin introduce legislation to remove penalties from business owners with criminal records during the pandemic.

Prison Fellowship’s policy team releases interactive map of COVID-19’s impact on state and federal prisons across the United States.

Prison Fellowship’s policy team releases interactive map of COVID-19’s impact on state and federal prisons across the United States.

Prison Fellowship celebrates Second Chance Month every April to help unlock second chances for tens of millions of Americans with a criminal record. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted our plans, as it did for most Americans. But it didn’t derail the second chance movement.

Sen. Portman urges SBA not to penalize business owners with criminal records during pandemic.

Prison Fellowship celebrates expansion of Second Chance Pell sites while urging Congress to make the program permanent.

Heather Rice-Minus, Prison Fellowship’s vice president of government affairs and church mobilization, tells us why a restorative approach to justice is important.

The recently passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act touches nearly every part of American society, including the prison system.