Quality vocational training, in-prison work experience, and job opportunities upon release could be so transformative if only there were the vision and leadership to realize the potential.
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The Spiritual Option to Defeat Obesity
With spiritual balance and purpose that brings a strong sense of love and self-worth, the negative stresses that lead to unhealthy conditions are reduced.
Read More »Email Services Bring News to Federal Inmates
A number of services provide federal inmates access to news and other information by email.
Read More »Remembering Eisenhower’s Speech on Child Hunger
Millions of refugees from African wars are hoping someone will come to their rescue with food aid.
Read More »To Present a Full View of Health Care Treatments, Prayer Should Be Included
Prayer shouldn't have been dropped from the Complementary and Alternative Medicine survey.
Read More »Seven Steps to a Successful Prison Disciplinary Outcome
It's a sad fact that a prisoner charged with inmate misconduct is judged by the reporting officer's co-workers.
Read More »Peace Plan for War-Torn Mali Needs School Meals
If funding does not come through for Mali, the children will pay a price, and you cannot build or rebuild a country with children missing out on education.
Read More »Four Letter Words: Learning How to Write from a Federal Prison
If we as Americans want prisoners to succeed at something pro-social whether it be writing, learning, or not returning to a life of crime, we have to provide them with the tools to do so.
Read More »Can Viewing Yourself Differently Actually Stop Chronic Pain?
As medical science stalls in finding answers to safe and effective pain relief, interest in spirituality has grown.
Read More »Governor Cuomo’s Cost-Saving Prescription for Safer Streets: Prisoner Education
Providing college-level education to inmates has been shown to dramatically reduce recidivism and the cost to taxpayers of incarceration.
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