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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 ...
Prison Fellowship was founded in 1976 by Charles W. Colson, a former Richard Nixon aide who served a seven-month prison sentence for a Watergate-related crime. [2] [3] [4] In 1979, Prison Fellowship International was founded as an international outreach to prisoners and a sister organization of Prison Fellowship. [5]
While the organization is self-managed, they are a part of the larger Fraternidade Brasileira de Assistência aos Condenados (FBAC) (English: Fraternity of Assistance to the Convicted) which itself has links to Prison Fellowship International. [1] [2] The first APAC prison was created in São José dos Campos, São Paulo in 1972.
Prison Fellowship organized the Virtual Second Chance 5K [23] for people to show support for Second Chance Month in their own communities. Registered participants received a special race packet including a runner's medal and race bib. April 23: On Capitol Hill, Prison Fellowship co-hosted a screening of Knife Skills with Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.
The InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI) was an American Christian prison program operated by Prison Fellowship International (PFI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established by Chuck Colson. The program was closed in 2016.
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.
Amnesty International USA; Anti-Recidivism Coalition; Center for Court Innovation; Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice; Color of Change; Ella Baker Center for Human Rights; FWD.us; Right on Crime; The Marshall Project; Southern Center for Human Rights; Southern Poverty Law Center; Southeast Prison Advocates; Realness Project ...
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