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Second Chances: Prison Fellowship Academy Transforms Lives


By Grayson Pope
www.prisonfellowship.org
Darryl Brooks lived for the streets. He was using marijuana at 10 and selling drugs by middle school. He continued to sell as an adult, until he caught law enforcement’s attention and received a 50-year sentence.
Five years into his sentence, Brooks trusted Jesus for his salvation. He says, “God wrecked my life, and I ain’t been the same since.” In 2000, he was transferred to the Carol S. Vance Unit in Richmond, Texas, where his wrecked life was rebuilt into something much stronger.
After arriving at the Carol S. Vance Unit, Brooks enrolled in the Prison Fellowship Academy®, which offers incarcerated men and women a pathway to holistic life transformation. Brooks didn’t know it at the time, but he was taking part in a relatively new experiment in corrections spearheaded by Prison Fellowship founder Charles “Chuck” Colson. ....

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Storytime Lets Fathers Form Bonds From Behind Bars


Storytime Lets Fathers Form Bonds From Behind Bars
Across the country, inmates are distance-reading bedtime stories to their kids and finding their own paths to redemption.
Credit.Lorenzo Gritti
March 11, 2021
Greg Williams, 45, doesn’t remember the first book he read to his daughters in 2006, but he remembers picking the shortest book in a stack, hoping he could get to the end without crying on camera. He imagined his girls in their pajamas, tucked into bed, listening. As he turned each page, he imagined that he was there, too.
At the Descanso Detention Facility in Southern California, a dozen men waited with tough-guy facades and children’s books in hand. They were participants in a program that allowed incarcerated parents to read to their children, albeit far removed from their bed sides. An unassuming beige room at the jail became a makeshift production studio, with men taking turns in front of a tripod-mounted camera. ....

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