PRISON FELLOWSHIP: Maine

Elderly Hands feature
The Graying of America’s Prisons

One of the consequences of over two decades of “tough on crime” legislation has been the steady increase in elderly residents in our nation’s jails and prisons. A 2015 Human Rights Watch report notes that the number of prisoners above the age of 55 has increased threefold in less than a decade, and that many of those men and women will remain incarcerated well into their 70s and 80s—if they leave prison at all.

By Steve Rempe
September 7, 2016
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But for the Grace of God …

What advice would you give to a younger you?  If you could give yourself a warning, or point a juvenile version of you in a particular direction, what would you say?  Would it make a difference?

The question became painfully real to Trent Bell, an architectural photographer in Maine, when a longtime family friend was convicted of a crime and sentenced to over 30 years in prison. 

By Steve Rempe
April 8, 2014
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