See full art piece below At Crossroads, every month we receive dozens of pieces of artwork from prisoners all across the country. We share this art in the Crossroads Journal of the Arts, on our Facebook page and in our Prisoner Art Project Gallery. We recently...
Art by Cesar, a Crossroads student in Texas Michael grew up in Cairo, Egypt, in a predominantly Islamic family. Exposure to both Islamic and Christian culture left him confused, and he sought answers by turning to drugs at the age of twelve. By sixteen, he was fully...
Chris Hoke, jail chaplain and author of the book Wanted, recently came to Crossroads Prison Ministries with his friend Neaner Garcia. Chris and Neaners exchanged letters for years while Neaners was in solitary confinement. They are now co-directors of Underground...
Lahai Kargbo was born in a remote village in Sierra Leone. His father had two wives and nine children. Lahai was a sickly child and was abandoned at a young age and left to die. Soon after, missionaries arrived in the village and took Lahai to a hospital to receive...
Tracy has been locked in a one-man cell in the infirmary of a Georgia prison for nearly five years. He is dealing with a lingering infection from a back surgery that he underwent years earlier in his incarceration. During his time in the infirmary, he battled...
Every day, people across the country are writing letters to people they’ve never met in prison. They share with them their lives, their stories and words of encouragement. The letters they send are often received by men and women who have no other contact with...
