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Creating Criminal Justice Reform One State at a Time

 

Prisons are the only businesses that succeed by failing.

In the United States, failed corrections systems cost taxpayers $68 billion a year and return approximately 50 percent of ex-offenders back to prison within three years. Any other business that failed half the time would close its doors.

By Pat Nolan
April 6, 2010
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Dreams Come True

Aaron pulled the trigger that would tear away his freedom and change the course of his life—as well as the lives of everyone he knew, even those he hadn't yet met.

By Zoe Sandvig
April 6, 2010
Native American | Oklahoma
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Pat Nolan and Connie Rice Op-Ed in the LA Times

Prison rape is an uncomfortable subject rarely covered in newspapers, a laugh line on late-night television. But the reality is that rape in our prisons is a national scandal.

By Alan Eason
April 5, 2010
Human Rights & Persecution | PF News | Politics & Government
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From Prison to Payroll: Ex-Prisoners’ Challenge to Find a Job

Nationwide, as many as 60 percent of ex-prisoners are unemployed one year after their release from prison. This signals pending disaster—not only for the ex-prisoners and their families, but also for the broader community.

Nationwide, as many as 60 percent of ex-prisoners are unemployed one year after their release from prison.

By Becky Beane
March 3, 2010
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When Giving Up Isn’t an Option

Jesus promises to make all things new. But radical transformation seldom takes place overnight. Here’s one example of how a church came alongside an ex-prisoner through his baby steps toward lasting change.

“When he said that, I settled down,” says Pastor Ball, and he launched into his new prison ministry.When

By Becky Beane
March 3, 2010
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A Better Plan

This isn’t what I signed up for. I just wanted to be a helper—with a job that sounded safe, with someone else in charge. A few months ago, when I expressed my desire to work with Prison Fellowship, I wanted to be helpful but didn’t know exactly what I’d be doing.

By Rosemarie Ahrens
February 3, 2010
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The Risk of Returning to Prison

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What makes prisoners more likely to re-offend when they get out of prison? Is it the lack of a job? Hanging around with friends from the “old neighborhood”? Low self-esteem?

By Frontlines Staff
February 3, 2010
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Juvenile Justice: The Case For Local Control

New York City faces a unique opportunity to transform the way we treat young people who come in conflict with the law. On December 21, 2011, Mayor Bloomberg outlined plans that would empower New York City (and other local jurisdictions) to assume responsibility for juvenile justice system services.

By Marsha Weissman
February 1, 2010
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Ambassador Tony Hall Awarded William Wilberforce Award

When Tony Hall first met Mother Teresa, she took his solid left hand in her frail one. “I want you always to remember something,” she urged the U.S. congressman from Ohio. And as she gently folded each of his fingers, she accentuated, “For .

By Steve Rempe
January 21, 2010
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Dial Back Phone Rates for Prisoners

Topping the list of complaints that many prisoners have is not the snoring of their cellmates or the quality of the food, but the difficulty and expense of making telephone calls.

Cell phones are forbidden—and rightly so—and most prisoners have only a few hours a day to use prison payphones.

By Pat Nolan
January 12, 2010
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Why We Do What We Do

In the Centurions Program—BreakPoint’s year-long, intensive worldview training program—we like to say that we’re turning the world “right side up” for Christ. When Christians study the principles of their faith and learn to apply them in the world, amazing things happen.

By Chuck Colson
January 12, 2010
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High-Security Students

The Bible’s book of Acts ends with chapter 28. But that didn’t stop Dr. David Osterlund from starting a newsletter called Acts 29—“because we’re writing a new chapter here in South Carolina,” he explains with enthusiasm.

In December 2008, for example, 15 newly commissioned missionaries headed out to spread the hope and power of Jesus Christ within a culture most would find foreign and fearsome: the prison culture.The

By Becky Beane
January 11, 2010
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A Father’s Voice

He screamed. He jumped up and down. And then the 11-year-old unashamedly cried as he inserted the ear buds of his new MP3 player and heard his father’s voice.

“It was like having his father right there,” says Angela* of her grandson Tony whom she cares for while his dad—her son—serves time in prison.

By Becky Beane
January 9, 2010
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Creating Criminal Justice Reform One State at a Time

Creating Criminal Justice Reform One State at a Time

Prisons are the only businesses that succeed by failing.

In the United States, failed corrections systems cost taxpayers $68 billion a year and return approximately 50 percent of ex-offenders back to prison within three years.

By Pat Nolan
January 7, 2010
  • Prison & Prisoners
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The Ugly Truth about Sexual Abuse of Juveniles in Detention

The Ugly Truth about Sexual Abuse of Juveniles in Detention A Call to Government to Put a Stop to It—Now

The U.S. Department of Justice recently released Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities Reported by Youth, 2008-09. The report found that 12 percent of juveniles in custody had been sexually assaulted in the prior year.

By Pat Nolan
January 3, 2010
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