ROCK ISLAND -- The story of creation is told in Genesis. The story about the creation of a prison ministry program is told by Jana Minor. The stories are closely related. Mrs. Minor of Batavia will ...

Reentry after prison is often framed around what someone shouldn’t do next: don’t reoffend, don’t relapse, don’t associate ...

Kairos Prison Ministry is seeking volunteers for its next weekend mission in October at the St. Marys Correctional Center. Here participants are in a past program at the correctional center. (Photo ...

Before he ever stepped foot inside a prison, Randolph Boardman spent decades trying to keep people out of them. The longtime educator and administrator worked with troubled youth in Wisconsin and ...

A global clutch of inmates is relying on faith to reshape their prison culture as they repay their past crimes and rebuild their lives, an evangelical ministry group says. From Australia to Zimbabwe, ...

TULSA, Okla. — His Open Door Ministry is expanding its mission helping people remain on the right path after leaving prison. Beth and Kevin Taylor, a Tulsa couple who know the challenges of life after ...

THOMASVILLE — It looks like all the other homes on Spring Street in Thomasville, but inside there is a major difference. Instead of being a single-family home, 211 Spring Street is intended to serve ...

The Hope-Western Prison Education Program will hold its first Commencement on Wednesday, June 25, celebrating the graduation of nine men who have earned degrees while incarcerated at Muskegon ...

MCLOUD, Okla. — Mabel Bassett Correctional Center is the largest woman's prison in Oklahoma. The prison, located in McLoud, houses the only woman on death row. You might imagine it's a place full of ...

When Tandy Cobb was a young girl growing up in Clarksville, Tenn., in the 1950s, her parents, who were avid readers, would regularly take her and her brother to the local library to check out books.