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Prison Officials Look to the Future at Warden Exchange Residency

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.

By Katie Milne
October 10, 2016
Burl Cain | Colette Mazzucelli | Doug Dretke | Leann Bertsch | Lino Lakes | Minneapolis | Minnesota | San Quentin | Shark Tank | Transformation | Virtual Reality | Warden Exchange
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A Restored, Purposeful Life

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.

By Steve Rempe
September 22, 2016
Craig DeRoche | Detroit News | Juvenile Justice | Michigan | reform | Restoration | Transformation
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Turning on the Switch

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.

By Ron Zifer
August 8, 2016
IFI | InnerChange Freedom Initiative | light switch | Transformation
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Warden Exchange: Wardens Communicating for Change

What is the image that comes to mind when you think of a prison warden?  

By Steve Rempe
January 7, 2016
Communication | Cool Hand Luke | Prison Culture | rehabilitation | Shawshank Redemption | Transformation | Warden Exchange
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Finding True Freedom at Christmas

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.

Every year, thousands of kids receive gifts from their incarcerated parents with the help of Angel Tree.

By Prison Fellowship
December 2, 2015
Angel Tree | Christmas | gifts | Transformation
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Mistaken Identity

On a recent trip to Michigan, I approached a man that I thought was our local Prison Fellowship field director. I hugged him and thanked him for all he was doing.

When I asked how he was, he said, “I’ve been out for three months, and I am an associate pastor!”

By Jim Liske
November 23, 2015
drug lord | Michigan | Reentry | Transformation
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Risen to New Life

In my decades as a pastor, I saw a lot of things in church, but this was a first.

In the middle of the church auditorium, surrounded by their families and other worshipers, were about 100 prisoners in orange jumpsuits. They are part of a partnership between a county jail and a local congregation.

By Jim Liske
November 9, 2015
Churches | Jim Likse | Transformation
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A Transformed Life: Art Medina

By the time he was 15 years old, Arthur Medina was a runaway living on the streets in Texas. It wasn’t long before he turned to crime just to survive.

Art earned his living stealing cars and running them across the border.

By Prison Fellowship
July 1, 2015
houston | IFI | InnerChange | InnerChange Freedom Initiative | Texas | Transformation
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God Redeems Fernando

Thanks to Prison Fellowship partners, men and women like Fernando are experiencing bright futures!

By Rebekah L. Stratton
March 24, 2015
IFI | incarceration | innerchange freedom | new life | Prison Fellowship | prison ministry | prisoner | program | Reentry | release | Transformation
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The Marks of Jesus

To go into prison is to be marked for life.  Regardless of the time spent, the lessons learned, and the changes made, these men and women will forever be identified as prisoners—a “scarlet letter” firmly affixed upon them, and readily visible to all. 

By Steve Rempe
January 28, 2015
Freedom Tattoos | Poland | Tattoos | Transformation | Vendetta
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