PRISON FELLOWSHIP: COVID-19

Check in with us each week for an update on how the COVID-19 is affecting Prison Fellowship and correctional facilities - including our regularly updated map of impact on prisons in each state.

During the most challenging time of their careers, chaplains looked to Prison Fellowship as they embraced new ways to serve the prisoners in their care.

Church on the Move to host Hope Event on Sunday evening, featuring Richard Acuna, Serena Steenjoldt, and live streamed into Roswell Correction Center.

It's been a difficult year, but thanks to God, it has also been a year of transformation. To celebrate what God has done, here are our top 12 stories.

You’re invited to attend the April 2021 Virtual Second Chance Month Gala. Join us as we celebrate second chances with keynote speaker Bryan Stevenson, musical guest Lecrae, and our partners.

Prison Fellowship is called to "remember those in prison"—including the oft-overlooked correctional officers.

Prison chaplain John Cherico writes to the Incarcerated readers of Inside Journal on how God can turn painful trials into triumphs.

The prison population is one of society’s vulnerable communities.

Prison Fellowship is proud to release our Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Report. The COVID-19 pandemic tried to shake us, but we found new ways to continue to serve all of those affected by crime and incarceration.

Even in a regular non-pandemic year, the separation from family can impact the mental health of men and women behind bars during the holidays.

“I want so bad to help in the same way that I was helped.” Reentry can bring a whole new set of problems for returning citizens. Prison Fellowship Academy provides prisoners with the tools they need for reentry.

From the ministry’s first-ever virtual Easter celebration to socially distanced Hope Events safely conducted outside the prison fence, Prison Fellowship is finding new ways to continue to bring the hope of the Gospel to incarcerated men and women.

“I was trapped in my own mindset. I was trapped into thinking that I had to be something that society said I had to be, instead of being what God said I was.”

“Although COVID-19 may have closed the doors of America's prisons, it couldn't shut out the hope of the Gospel.” Through Floodlight, a new Prison Fellowship program, inspirational and educational content is available to prisons across the nation.

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