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The Justice Declaration, created by Prison Fellowship and its partners, is a statement of criminal justice principles based on the God-given dignity and potential of all people. The authors and signers of the declaration call upon the Christian Church to deploy its unparalleled capacity to respond to crime and over-incarceration.
Prison Fellowship International runs a child sponsorship program which aims to help needy children of prisoners with support in education and health care. [6] The Angel Tree Program is an outreach to the children of prisoners at Christmas. Members of local churches volunteer to sponsor these children by purchasing a gift based on information ...
"The InnerChange Freedom Initiative A Preliminary Evaluation of a Faith-Based Prison Program." - Center for Research on Urban and Civil Society "Graduates of Faith-Based Prison Program Less Likely to Return to Prison." Prison Fellowship Ministries "THE INNERCHANGE FREEDOM INITIATIVE (IFI) PRE-RELEASE PROGRAM." Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
A yearslong study of Parchman and other Mississippi prisons will help Pepperdine Univeristy research learn more about faith-based programming behind bars. Can religious programs change prison ...
Religion in United States prisons. Inmates incarcerated in the United States penal system practice a variety of religions. Their basic constitutional right to worship has been reinforced by decades of court decisions and more recently by the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
KPM began in 1976 in Raiford, Florida as a program called Cursillo in Prison, based on the Cursillo movement. Referred to as a "short course in Christianity", the program spread to six US states by 1978. It was renamed "Kairos", a Greek term meaning " God's Special Time". In 2023, the ministry is active in 39 US states and nine nations.
Why access to college programs in prison matters. It is estimated that by 2027, 70 percent of jobs will require some sort of postsecondary degree or training beyond high school. But only 6 percent ...
Prison contemplative programs. Prison contemplative programs are classes or practices (which includes meditation, yoga, contemplative prayer or similar) that are offered at correctional institutions for inmates and prison staff. There are measured or anecdotally reported benefits from studies of these programs such a stress relief for inmates ...