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Justice Ambassador Sheena Beasley to Receive Colson Award

Greensboro Native and Almond Connection founder Sheena Beasley to receive 2021 Charles Colson Advocate of Hope Award.

By Prison Fellowship
January 14, 2022
Advocate of Hope | Charles Colson Hope Awards | North Carolina
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The Voice of An Advocate: Sheena Beasley Can’t Be Stopped

Sheena helps returning citizens as a Prison Fellowship Justice Ambassador and runs a reentry organization in North Carolina. And she’s doing more than she ever imagined possible.

By Sheena Beasley & Emily Andrews
September 29, 2021
Justice Ambassador | Justice Reform | North Carolina
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Matthew Charles and Ending Racial Inequity in the Justice System

Matthew Charles spent decades caught in the disparities of the system.

By Emily Andrews
January 28, 2021
Justice Reform | North Carolina | The Justice Chronicles
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Through the Eyes of Jesus

"The church just really loved me and took care of me. They were there to help me and didn't hold anything back."

By Emily Harris Greene
April 3, 2018
Assemblies of God | North Carolina | River of Life Community Church | Second Chance Month | Second Chances | Virginia
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The Civil Rights Leader Who Sounded the Call for Prison Ministry

Hope Events are one of the backbones of Prison Fellowship’s ministry—but the idea came from a corrections and civil rights leader.

By Grayson Pope
March 6, 2018
Illinois | North Carolina
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Inside Journal Takes Gospel to More Than 700 Prisons

Prison can be a dark place, full of corrosive influences. Prisoners who want to follow Christ must fight against a tide that threatens to push them back into old behaviors and thought patterns. Other men and women might be curious about Jesus, but, cynical about the value of “religion,” they balk at the idea of attending a chapel service.

By Alyson R. Quinn
August 19, 2016
North Carolina
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Baptisms in a Jail Parking Lot

The parking lot of the Durham (NC) County Jail is not a place most people would see as a location for religious revival, but on June 25, this unlikely setting served as the site for the baptism of 39 of the jail’s prisoners.

By Steve Rempe
June 30, 2016
Durham | Durham County Jail | North Carolina | Prison Baptisms
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NC Announces New Youthful Offender Program

The North Carolina prison system announced that they will put an end to solitary confinement for juvenile offenders in the prison system. Historically, youth were placed in solitary confinement if they seriously violated prison rules.

By this September, the N.C. Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice will launch a Youthful Offender Program that will provide education, mental and behavioral health counseling, life skills classes, and family and community reunification services.

By Breanna Atkinson
June 27, 2016
Creating a Constructive Prison Culture | North Carolina | Solitary Confinement | Youthful Offender Program
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Spending ‘One Day with God’

Shirley Beatty is Prison Fellowship’s field director for North Carolina and Southern Virginia. In the following article, she recounts a recent visit to the Mountain View Correctional Institution in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, as part of the “One Day with God” program.

By Shirley Beatty
May 23, 2016
Mountain View Correctional Institution | North Carolina | One Day with God | Scottie Barnes
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A Night in Prison

By the time Sgt. Joseph Serna left his position in the Special Forces, he had completed four combat tours in over two decades in Afghanistan. He had nearly been killed on three separate occasions, and received three Purple Heart awards, along with several other commendations for bravery and valor.

By Steve Rempe
April 25, 2016
Fayetteville | Green Beret | Joseph Serna | Lou Olivera | North Carolina | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | PTSD | Special Forces | Veterans Treatment Court
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God May See a King

John Jennings stood in the courtroom, looking into the eyes of the man who had murdered his son. This man had been his son’s friend, but one night, this “friend” took John’s son into the woods, demanded his money, and shot him.

By Beth Reid
February 5, 2016
John Jennings | North Carolina | Reentry | Robbery | South Carolina
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The Visitor

The following story is written by Jeff Freeman, a prisoner at the Pamlico Correctional Institution. It was forwarded to Prison Fellowship by Don Fulford, volunteer chairman for the Nehemiah Project, which seeks to “reach, reconcile, and restore the men at the Wake Correctional Center” in North Carolina.

By Jeff Freeman
July 13, 2015
Don Fulford | In-Prison | Jeff Freeman | Mentoring | North Carolina | Project Nehemiah
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A Shining Star

Scottie Barnes (r) receives the 2014 Angel Tree Star of Victory Award from Mary Engle, Prison Fellowship’s director for the Great Lakes/Mid-Atlantic region. (Photo by Edward Weston)

Scottie Barnes knows what it is like to grow up without a father present in her life. 

By Steve Rempe
August 20, 2014
Forgiven Ministry | North Carolina | One Day with God | Scottie Barnes

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