Prison ministry volunteers Dave and Judy McElyea reflect on decades of volunteer experience and how faith-based organizations can make a positive impact on prisons.
November 28, 2018
Written by Stacia Ray
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November 3, 2016
Written by Emily Greene
Ron Zifer serves as the program manager for Prison Fellowship’s InnerChange Freedom Initiative in Texas.
Time and again I’m asked, “Where does the real change come for the men in the InnerChange Freedom Initiative program?” Many want to know if there is a specific class or program really changes these men.
August 8, 2016
Written by Ron Zifer
The newly announced president and CEO of Prison Fellowship, James Ackerman, was recently interviewed on WHO Radio in Des Moines, Iowa. During the program, Ackerman described to host Jamie Johnson the work of Prison Fellowship, and how he came to be involved with prison ministry.
July 26, 2016
Written by Steve Rempe
Ron Zifer serves as the program manager for Prison Fellowship’s InnerChange Freedom Initiative in Texas.
When men arrive at the Carol S. Vance Unit to participate in the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, they come with a variety of horrible states of mind.
June 28, 2016
Written by Ron Zifer
In today’s confusing society it is no wonder our children, spouses, and other family members and friends end up in trouble or even prison. Call me ‘old school,’ but throughout a large portion of a young person’s developmental years they live in this confusing world where there are no absolutes.
June 22, 2016
Written by Ron Zifer
By the time he was 15 years old, Arthur Medina was a runaway living on the streets in Texas. It wasn’t long before he turned to crime just to survive.
Art earned his living stealing cars and running them across the border.
July 1, 2015
Written by Prison Fellowship
This past Sunday was a time of great celebration at IFI. Eighteen formerly incarcerated men returned to the Carol Vance unit to graduate before their families and other program participants.
April 30, 2015
Written by Rebekah L. Stratton
Last year, Bob celebrated his 90th birthday inside Minnesota's only level five maximum-security prison, Oak Park Heights. Bob has led Bible studies there since the late 1990s.
April 16, 2015
Written by Lori Stertz
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.
April 8, 2015
Written by Elisabeth Boehm