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In Our Toxic Prison System, Is There Room for Hope?

David Chura | Posted 09.04.2012 | Crime
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David Chura

I didn't expect my talk to a class of criminal justice majors at a local community college to be any different from the other workshops, presentations and classes I'd done.

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Prison Chaplains A Common Victim Of State Budget Cuts

Posted 10.08.2011 | Religion
Read More: State Budgets, State Prisons, Correctional Chaplains, State Budget Cuts, Prison Chaplains, Prison Chaplains Cut, Prison Life, Chaplains, Prisons, Religion News

By Yonat Shimron and Adelle M. Banks c. 2011 Religion News Service RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) In the two months since North Carolina's legislature laid o...

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Life After Prison: How One Man Found Redemption Through Fatherhood

Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Prison Redemption, Good Men Project, Life After Prison, Parenting, Good Men Project Abrigal Forrester, Abrigal Forrester, Prison Life, Abrigal Forrester Good Men Project, Tony Robbins Breakthrough, Healthy Living News
Tom Matlack

When Abrigal Forrester got out of prison, he immediately got a job as a janitor at MIT, and ultimately became Program Coordinator for Street Safe Boston, an organization working to reduce violence in the most dangerous areas of the city.

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'Orange Is The New Black' Author On Life In The Big House

wowOwow | Piper Kerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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When I was sent to federal prison in February, 2004, for a ten-year-old drug offense, I thought my life was over. It wasn't, but the way I looked at t...

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