PRISON FELLOWSHIP BLOG: Transformation

Amazing! Outstanding experience. The most impacting, rewarding development of my leadership skills and relationships. These are the words of wardens, deputy wardens, and assistant wardens after participating in Prison Fellowship’s recent Warden Exchange program residency in Minneapolis.

The two-day residency began with a comparison between European and American prisons, led by Association for State Correctional Administrators president Leann Bertsch and Colette Mazzucelli, a New York University international relations professor.

For Prison Fellowship Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy Craig DeRoche, justice reform is more than a job, it’s a passion developed from personal experience.

At the age of 34, DeRoche was elected Speaker of the House in the Michigan State Legislature—the youngest person to ever hold that position.

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.

Beth’s dad liked to drink. Sometimes he’d drink too much and end up behind bars. He wasn’t always there when Beth needed him.

But he did something special for her while in prison—he signed up for Angel Tree.