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‘Until the Lord Calls Me Home’

"I don't believe that God allowed me to leave prison so that I could kick up my feet and enjoy life. There's a lot of men who have done less than what I've done and are still in prison."

By Emily Harris Greene
April 9, 2018
Chicago | Chicago West Bible Church | Drug Addiction | Drug Dealing | Moody Bible Institute | Philadelphia | Reentry | Second Chance Month | Youth Justice
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Dying for Your Sins

“Doesn’t the Bible say that murderers can’t go to heaven?”

That’s a question I was asked almost every week during my visits to the Cook County Jail in Chicago.

The inmate who started my weekly jail visits was a young deaf college student who, in a moment of rage, killed another deaf person at his school.

By Ron Friedrich
August 31, 2016
Chicago | Cook County Jail | deaf | deaf ministry | In Prison | Ron Friedrich
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Indiana, Illinois Pursue Alternatives to Incarceration

In just a month, Indiana will be closing one of its minimum security prisons, Henryville Correctional Facility–a move which will hopefully assist the state’s new emphasis on corrections reform.

In 2014, the Indiana House of Representatives passed legislation that reroutes prisoners from state facilities into local jails.

By Zoe Erler
June 3, 2016
Chicago | Henryville Correctional Facility | Restorative Justice Community Court | sentencing | Thinking Outside the Bars
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No Turning Back

A significant number of cities in the United States reported an increase in homicide rates in 2015—a disturbing trend that some have claimed marks the end of a period that saw historic reductions in violent crimes in places like New York City and Chicago.

By Steve Rempe
May 23, 2016
Chicago | Craig DeRoche | homicide | homicide rates | Marco Rubio | New York | Washington Examiner
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Providing an Education for Ex-Prisoners

Daniel Geiter spent much of his young adult years in and out of correctional facilities in and around Chicago. Between his adolescent years and the age of 25, Geiter estimates that he was incarcerated in excess of 20 times.

It was during one of these prison stays that Geiter concluded that things needed to change.

By Steve Rempe
March 31, 2016
Chicago | Daniel Geiter | education | Illinois | Second Prison Project | Ward College
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Going to School

For some students at DePaul University, going to class involves more than just walking into into a lecture hall with a cup of coffee in one hand and a laptop in the other.  There are background checks to be made, interviews to be conducted, and copious amounts of paperwork that must be completed before these students are able to even enter the classroom.  

By Steve Rempe
November 13, 2015
Chicago | DePaul | Inside-Out | Inside-Out Prison Exchange | Joliet | Restorative Justice | Stateville
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Restorative Justice Works (No Matter What You Believe)

The following article originally appeared on the Justice Fellowship website.

Restorative justice works. Its principles are effective in facilitating individual change and impeding the cycle of crime whenever they are applied. However, it is helpful to understand what root issue restorative justice really helps to treat and why it’s a better response to harm in our society.

By Elisabeth Boehm
March 20, 2015
Chicago | Huffington Post | Illinois | Nancy Michaels | Peace Circles | Restorative Justice
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Leaders Collaborate to Help Underserved

On Oct. 23, Prison Fellowship and other organizations from all over the globe gathered in New York City for the fifth annual Movement Day. This event brings together leadership teams from the world's largest cities to build partnerships that help them better reach their respective cities with the grace-filled Gospel of Christ.

By Rebekah L. Stratton
October 29, 2014
Chicago | collaboration | fellowship baptist church | From the CEO | gospel | green family | hobby lobby | legacy project | movement day | New York City | Prison Fellowship | underserved | world leaders
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Illinois Gives Young People a Second Chance

Chicago lawmakers have decided it's time to take a fresh approach to counteracting all the gun violence and overflowing jails in their city. And this fresh approach starts with the young people.

By Rebekah L. Stratton
July 25, 2014
Chicago | crime | expungement | incarceration | juvenile | minor arrest | Prison | Prison Fellowship | Second Chances
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Serving the Mentally Ill behind Bars

On a broadcast of PBS’ Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, PFM Senior Vice President Pat Nolan offers his thoughts on the incarceration of mentally ill inmates, and the Christian obligation to reach out in love to those in need behind bars.

“You know, Jesus said, ‘I was naked, and you clothed me. 

By Steve Rempe
June 26, 2013
Chicago | Cook County | Illinois | Maryland | mental illness

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