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PRISON FELLOWSHIP BLOG: Burl Cain

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Prison Officials Look to the Future at Warden Exchange Residency

Amazing! Outstanding experience. The most impacting, rewarding development of my leadership skills and relationships. These are the words of wardens, deputy wardens, and assistant wardens after participating in Prison Fellowship’s recent Warden Exchange program residency in Minneapolis.

The two-day residency began with a comparison between European and American prisons, led by Association for State Correctional Administrators president Leann Bertsch and Colette Mazzucelli, a New York University international relations professor.

By Katie Milne
October 10, 2016
Burl Cain | Colette Mazzucelli | Doug Dretke | Leann Bertsch | Lino Lakes | Minneapolis | Minnesota | San Quentin | Shark Tank | Transformation | Virtual Reality | Warden Exchange
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Announcing the 2016 Charles Colson Hope Award Honorees

On August 9, 1976—two years to the day that President Richard Nixon resigned from as President of the United States—Charles Colson founded Prison Fellowship. The former Nixon adviser, who spent seven months in a federal correctional facility after pleading guilty to Watergate-related charges, left prison a changed man, committed to “remembering the prisoner” and honoring the God-given value and potential of every person affected by crime and incarceration.

By Steve Rempe
August 9, 2016
Burl Cain | Charles Colson | Charles Colson Hope Awards | Chuck Colson | Danny Croce | David and Charlotte Cauwels | Hope Awards | John Cornyn | Mary Kay Beard
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Hope for the Hopeless

“The Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola is one of America’s most unusual prisons.”

Thus begins Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg’s report on the facility once referred to as “the bloodiest prison in America.”  The comment initially refers to the 18,000 acre property’s previous existence as a southern plantation purchased with slave trade proceeds, but as the video makes clear, the uniqueness of Angola goes well beyond it’s history.

By Steve Rempe
September 17, 2015
Burl Cain | Louisiana | Malachi Dads
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The Changing Face of the Modern Warden

What does it take to be a prison warden?

The answer to that question is rapidly shifting.

“Corrections has changed,” explains Warden Chris Hendry, Martin Correctional Institution (Indiantown, Florida). “We’re not ‘prison bosses’ anymore. We’re not in the same environment we used to be.”

By Zoe Erler
September 16, 2015
Burl Cain | Florida | incarceration | Leadership | Martin Correctional Institution | Pedro Moreno | Prison | Prison Fellowship | warden | Warden Exchange | Warden Hendry
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Finding Leadership in Unexpected Places

Men at the Graceville Correctional Facility in Graceville, Florida, proudly display their certificates for the completion of the Global Leadership Summit. (Click image to enlarge.)

When someone says “leadership,” what is the first thing that comes to mind?  For some, the first image of a leader is a captain of industry—a visionary like Steve Jobs who has changed the world with innovation and an indomitable spirit. 

By Steve Rempe
August 11, 2015
Burl Cain | Global Leadership Summit | Willow Creek
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No Disposable People

A version of the following post originally aired as a BreakPoint commentary.

The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote that “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” He spoke from experience, having spent four years in Siberia after having his death sentence commuted.

By Eric Metaxas
September 23, 2014
Burl Cain | Dignity | Eric Metaxas | First Things | Peter Leithart
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Dignity and the Moral Rehabilitation of Prisoners

Much has been written in this blog about Warden Burl Cain.  (See here, here, and here for examples).  During his nearly two decades at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the prison has shed its reputation as the “bloodiest prison in America,” and has become a model for other prisons seeking to reduce violent assaults among prisoners.

By Steve Rempe
September 16, 2014
Burl Cain | Dignity | Humanity | Louisiana | Moral Rehabilitation
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Leaders in Prison

For the last 20 years, the Willow Creek Association has presented the Global Leadership Summit, a two-day event that brings together leaders from both the business and church spheres.  This year the event was broadcast via satellite to over 300 venues around the world – including three locations not often considered for their leadership potential.

By Steve Rempe
August 18, 2014
Burl Cain | California | Folsom Prison | Global Leadership Summit | Leadership | Louisiana | Nelson Mandela | Reentry | Texas
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The Saints of Angola

Photo courtesy Angola Prison / Wikipedia Commons

A controversial new plan to prepare inmates for reentry into society is being proposed in Louisiana.  The idea is to move a thousand prisoners from a minimum-security prison in the state and transfer them to Angola Prison, a maximum-security prison once infamous for violence and decrepit conditions. 

By Steve Rempe
April 22, 2013
Burl Cain | Louisiana | Mentoring | Reetry
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Influential Warden on Curbing Recidivism

Burl Cain, a member of Prison Fellowship’s board of directors and the long-serving warden of Angola Prison, was recently interviewed by the Acton Institute for an article appearing on its website. Since Cain took over Angola in 1995, it’s gone from being “the bloodiest prison in America” to one of the most revolutionary.

By Alyson R. Quinn
January 29, 2013
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