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Building a Constructive Prison Culture

A version of this article originally appeared on the Justice Fellowship website.

Prisoners participating in an InnerChange Freedom Initiative class.

It’s “boring” to work in prison units where faith-based programs thrive.

According to Justice Fellowship Policy Analyst Jesse Wiese, who served a sentence in an Iowa prison, corrections officers often complained that it was boring to be in a prison unit filled with men and women who were involved in religious programs that taught morality—because there wasn’t much discipline to enforce.

By Elisabeth Boehm
April 8, 2015
Chuck Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections | InnerChange Freedom Initiative | Jesse Wiese | Restorative Justice
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A New Task Force for Criminal Justice Reform

The following post and interview originally appeared on the BreakPoint website.

The criminal justice system was a vital concern to the late Chuck Colson and the organization he founded, Prison Fellowship. The need for Reform is ongoing. And to that end, John Stonestreet welcomes former Congressman J.

By John Stonestreet
February 23, 2015
Chuck Colson | Chuck Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections | From the CEO | J. C. Watts | Justice Reform
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Prison Reform, the Colson Way

A version of the following commentary originally appeared on  the BreakPoint website.

No human life is irredeemable—no one is beyond the reach of God. And if anyone in recent history embodied that truth, it was Chuck Colson.

In 1969, as a young, hard-driving, fast-rising political star, Chuck found himself in the oval office, accepting Richard Nixon’s offer to become special counsel to the President.

By John Stonestreet
February 20, 2015
Breakpoint | Chuck Colson | Chuck Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections | Frank Wolf | From the CEO | J. C. Watts
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“Justice Can Be Restorative”

In January of 2014, the U.S. Congress established the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections.  Prison Fellowship President and CEO Jim Liske was asked to serve on that task force, representing the interests of Prison Fellowship, and providing a voice to millions of prisoners and their families.

By Steve Rempe
February 19, 2015
Chuck Colson | Chuck Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections | J. C. Watts | Justice Reform
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A Dream Realized

It was just a few months before Chuck went home to Jesus. We were sitting in his home in Naples, Florida, and he was “schooling” me, as he did several times in the nine months he and I were together at Prison Fellowship.

By Jim Liske
January 26, 2015
Chuck Colson | Chuck Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections | department of justice | Restoration | Task Force

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