PRISON FELLOWSHIP: Texas

Making a Difference
  • Advocacy & Reentry
Making a Difference

Prison Fellowship's advocacy team, volunteers, and partners are making a difference for justice that restores. Let's reflect on what we have achieved together.

By Prison Fellowship
July 30, 2024
Justice Ambassador | Michigan | Ohio | Oklahoma | Tennessee | Texas | Virginia
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  • Advocacy & Reentry
An Opportunity to Reflect

Prison Fellowship is working alongside lawmakers to raise up a voice for justice that restores. Let's reflect on what we have achieved together.

By Prison Fellowship
August 2, 2023
Justice Ambassador | Michigan | Ohio | Oklahoma | Tennessee | Texas | Virginia
Pastor Scott Graham
  • Advocacy & Reentry
  • Reentry
  • Second Chance Month
But How Can We Help? Q&A With A Prison Ministry Pastor

A prison ministry pastor shares his heart for giving men and women the second chances they need to adapt to life after prison.

By Lou Haviland
April 19, 2023
prison ministry | Reentry | Second Chance Month | Texas
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  • Advocacy & Reentry
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Criminal Justice Reform Achievements

Prison Fellowship’s justice advocates and justice ambassadors continue to make a difference in our nation.

By Prison Fellowship
January 20, 2022
Criminal Justice Reform | Oklahoma | Tennessee | Texas | Virginia
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  • Prison & Prisoners
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  • Video
The Deep Divide of Racism in Prison [Video]

Former prisoner Kevin Bruno shares how racism, ignorance, and a lack of compassion can contribute to a violent culture behind bars.

By Prison Fellowship
January 14, 2022
Carol S. Vance Unit | Texas | Video | Who is My Neighbor?
  • Families of Prisoners
  • Angel Tree
Going the Extra Mile at Christmas

One incarcerated dad expresses what it means when people go the extra mile to send his kids gifts at Christmas—and to bless him, as well.

By Joanna Breault
November 3, 2021
Angel Tree Christmas | Texas
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  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Prison Fellowship Academy
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
Just Go Tell Them: How John Markle Found a Calling Behind Bars

Prison Fellowship Academy volunteer John Markle has received an award from the state of Texas. We caught up with John to get a better sense of why he volunteers and why he can’t imagine stopping.

By Alyson Quinn, Faith White
August 10, 2021
Carol S. Vance Unit | Texas | volunteer
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  • Advocacy & Reentry
One Father’s Refuge: Finding Hope in Unthinkable Loss

When Mike stood up in the courtroom, he faced the boy who killed his son. Then Mike spoke the words only God could have given him.

By Emily Andrews
April 14, 2021
Texas | Victims | Volunteers
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  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Prison Fellowship Academy
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
  • Video
How a Cancer Diagnosis Brought Susan and 300 Prisoners Together

For Susan Nutt, the very worst time to volunteer turned out to be exactly right. Her cancer was progressing—could she really find time for prison ministry?

By Joanna Breault
March 2, 2021
Carol S. Vance Unit | Texas | Volunteers
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  • Advocacy & Reentry
  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Prison Fellowship Academy
  • Prison Fellowship News & Updates
  • Second Chance Month
Prison Fellowship and CrossWalk Center Offer Hope in Reentry

Prison Fellowship and CrossWalk Center are partnering to place Houston-area Academy graduates in living-wage careers.

By Alyson R. Quinn
January 13, 2021
Carol S. Vance Unit | Second Chance Hiring | Texas
Rafael Cantu profile
  • Families of Prisoners
  • Angel Tree
A Rebel on the Streets Finds the Way to Life

Running the streets felt like freedom to Rafael, but he was running toward destruction. In prison, he spotted a flyer for the Angel Tree program. He had no idea his life was about to change.

By Emily Andrews
November 3, 2020
Angel Tree Christmas | Texas
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  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Prison Fellowship Academy
Training Ground: How Roderick Went from Prisoner to Mentor

Roderick spent years addicted to crack cocaine and the lifestyle that came with it. In prison, everything changed. Now he’s a mentor, showing other men how to find freedom.

By Emily Andrews
October 8, 2020
Carol S. Vance Unit | Texas
Zackarie Feature
  • Families of Prisoners
  • Angel Tree
Angel Tree Camping Helped Zackarie Find the Path to Success

Zackarie didn’t want to go to camp at first, but he’s so glad he did. More than a decade later, he remembers his weeks at camp as some of the best—and most transformative—of his life.

By Maria Mallory White
September 8, 2020
Angel Tree Camping | Frontier Camp | Texas
Gio Rodriguez
  • Prison & Prisoners
The Drug-Dealer’s Son: From a Boot Full of Cash to a Heart Full of Christ

Gio Rodriguez met God in a jail cell. Then everything changed.

By Emily Andrews
July 28, 2020
Prison Fellowship Academy | Texas
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  • Prison & Prisoners
  • Prison Fellowship Academy
Back to Basics: How Productivity Makes Time Serve You

Deep transformation doesn't happen overnight. Prison Fellowship Academy participants develop and practice the biblically based values of Good Citizenship.

By Emily Andrews
February 19, 2020
Texas | Values of Good Citizenship
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