PRISON FELLOWSHIP: Vera Institute

“Prisoners are human beings,” Prison Fellowship®’s Craig DeRoche says in his interview with FOX 17 in Michigan. “And they have the same-size hopes and dreams of people on the outside”

On Monday, DeRoche visited the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia County, Michigan.

For many of the men and women charged with serious crimes, punishment starts long before the trial.

Under the current bail system in most states, charged defendants are given the opportunity to pay an amount of money, commensurate with the severity of the crime and the risk of flight, to ensure that they will show up for their court date.