PRISON FELLOWSHIP: Minneapolis

Prison Fellowship Director of Community Engagement Jesse Wiese and former Minnesota Governor Al Quie recently penned an editorial for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, highlighting the challenges that hundreds of thousands of men and women face nationwide when they return to their communities from prison. 

The following post originally appeared on the Minneapolis Running website, and is reprinted here with permission.

Running is a communal activity. While we compete on an individual level, everyone I know agrees that running is far more enjoyable when done with others.

In 1993, a teenager named Oshea Israel shot and killed 20-year-old Laramiun Byrd at a party both were attending in Minneapolis.  Israel was sentenced to 25 years behind bars for second-degree murder, while the mother of the victim was sentenced to life without her only child.