You Visited Me: Christian Concern for the Prisoner

October 27, 2010

Each year nearly 650,000 men and women are released from state and federal prisons, having finished their sentences. The challenge is then to find a way to be received again into civil society. Prisoner re-entry must begin with the body of Christ. Why? And what "works" (i.e. reduces recidivism), what doesn't, what do we know, what do we take by faith, and what are the myths that keep the average believer away from the prison? Christian paradigms of forgiveness offer hope for the restoration of freed men and women.