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Christopher W. Fuerst Shame on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Prison Entrepreneurship Program for not accepting sex offe ...

Hans Hallundbaek Churches and ex-prisoners help each other find the way. With much anticipation I went to visi ...

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Carol Fennelly Families and communities pay a steep price for imprisonment rates. Is it really just my fathe ...

James Ferguson In May, the Institute on Women and Criminal Justice released a report on the growth of the number of women in prison in th ...

Jeshua Erickson Bob Ekblad has been reading the Bible with people who live on the margins—Chicano gang members, prison inmates, and undocu ...

Glenn Kumekawa A Japanese-American internment camp survivor reflects on Guantanamo and the state of the U.S. Constitution. ...

Robert Roth At its best the church is an "innocence project" for ourselves and others. Sometimes we ...

James Ferguson There are currently 7 million adults under correctional supervision in the United States, 1.6 million more than in 1995, according to a recent Department of Justice ...

Tom Montgomery-Fate The remarkable thing about Renny Golden’s writing is that it provides a bridge of understanding between a silenced, d ...

Holly Liebowitz Rossi The Amachi program gives people of faith the tools they need to make a difference for inmates' children. ...

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Rose Marie Berger Brian Bolton It's On Me. Canada has cancelled the $750 million d ...

Jens Soring What a Department of Corrections shotgun pellet taught me about centering prayer. The crazy thin ...

Elizabeth Palmberg Why the penal system isn't colorblind. A recent University of Maryland study found t ...

Kristin Ohlson Women's Re-entry Network in Cleveland is like many nonprofits—it is financially pinched and has a big-hearted but over ...

Rose Marie Berger Jodi Hochstedler Did you see the recent Essence article about Dorothy ...

David Whettstone Jesus on the cross is best viewed as what that event concretely was, an imperial execution," says Mark Lewis Taylor ...

Rachel Spaght An experimental summer camp brings children together with their dads--in prison. The heart of a ...

Raymond E. Williams My heart began to beat wildly; my mouth was as dry as the desert around me. Should I take time to go change my shirt? ...

Ryan Beiler The U.S. prison population passed the two million mark in February, provoking vigils and protests in more than 40 U.S. cities. ...

William F. Schulz Disguising brutality in prisons. "I agree with you that we should not house juveniles w ...

Hans Hallundbaek A remarkable new "seminary-behind-walls" program at Sing Sing prison helps to rebuild lives and offer hope. ...

Julio Medina I could not escape the still, silent voice that gnawed at the core of my soul. It followed me wherever I went. ...

Anthony Papa It was an extraordinary feeling to be set free after years of deprivation. It was an extraordinar ...

Carol Fennelly For-profit prisons bring in the loot. Lots of people are getting rich on crime these days, but ...

Rachel Johnson Aaron McCarroll Gallegos Live From Death Row, the new book by inmate Mu ...

Mary Sue Penn Murder victims' families stand against the death penalty. Bill Pelke had come a long way ...

Jennifer Johnson When the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, its drafters specified one exception: prisoners. ...