Lawyer’s Call to Work on Death Row

In 2020 Christian leader John Perkins interviewed the lawyer, Bryan Stevenson. Perkins, the son of a sharecropper, was born in poverty in Mississippi. ...

A Sweet, Soft Voice Saved His Life

Eduardo Rocha shares his dramatic testimony in an issue of CT magazine:

It was March 13, 1986, I was all alone and getting high. But I had also gotten ...

God Remembered Him in Prison

In an issue of CT magazine, Gene McGuire tells the story of how God found him serving a life sentence in prison and gave him new life in Christ.

I’d ...

Finding Eternal Life on Death Row

Pamela Perillo was on death row waiting for execution by lethal injection when she found Christ.

Pam grew up in the 1960s in Los Angeles. Two adults and ...

Correctional Inmates Earn Degrees in Christian Ministry

In June, a group of students were honored in an off-campus commencement ceremony, being conferred with degrees from a neighboring educational institution. ...

When Jesus Calls a Gang Leader by Name

Casey Diaz was a gang member as a teenager in South-Central Los Angeles. As a leader in the Rockwood Street Locos, he led his gang in home invasions, ...

Former Inmate Starts to Miss His Prison Cell

Before walking out of jail a free man in February, Albert Woodfox spent 43 years almost without pause in an isolation cell, becoming the longest standing ...

Karl Barth Retells Legend of the Saved Rider

Karl Barth preached regularly to the inmates of the prison in his hometown of Basel, Switzerland. Knowledge of that context adds poignancy to the sermons. ...

More Than a Book Club

A book club started in a prison by volunteers is still helping men recently released from becoming repeat offenders. Many of the men who joined "Free ...

The Knitting … Inmates?

They're sitting around a table under fluorescent lights, turning bright skeins of yarn into cold-weather hats. No, this isn't the "Retired ...