Smuggled Goods Change Minds and Hearts in North Korea

"If you're an average North Korean, it's nearly impossible to even leave the country—and if you are caught trying to escape, you'll ...

Letters from Prison to the Past

Photographer Trent Bell shared a fascinating and haunting photo project recently. Titled "Reflect," the series of images overlays images of ...

Christian Company Hires Mostly Ex-convicts

The United States has the largest prison population in the world, with 2.2 million adults behind bars. The United States also consumes more coffee ...

The Stockholm Syndrome

On Aug. 23, 1973, a 32-year-old man named Jan Erik Olsson Olsson stormed into a bank in Norway, pulled out a sub-machine gun, and started firing into ...

Death Row Inmate on the Bible's Power

I was visiting on death row in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. I asked one man if he would like to talk, and he said he would. He was a smallish ...

Stats on Incarceration in America

A 2010 report conducted by The Pew Charitable Trusts revealed the following statistics about incarceration rates in the United States:

• 2.3 million Americans are behind bars, equaling more than 1 in 100 adults. That marks a 300 percent increase since 1980.

Why Send Them to Prison?

Why should small-time embezzlers, bad-check writers, and petty burglars be in prison when they ought to be working to pay back those they have wronged, ...

Paul's Prisons

Paul may have spent as much as 25 percent of his time as a missionary in prison. We know of his brief lock-up in Philippi, two years' incarceration ...