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...
When Crossroads students finish a course of study, they receive a certificate to celebrate their accomplishment. Any time after they’ve finished their first course, they can request to receive a letter of recommendation from Crossroads to send to the parole board....
Chris was about to lose all the progress he’d made. He had been sober for four days, but the temptation to drink was consuming him. Something inside him told him to pray. “At my weakest moment, I said my first real prayer,” Chris remembers. “It is still the most...
Yago Williams, prison ministry leader at Resurrection Life Church, doesn’t like to sugarcoat his life. In his past, he abused drugs, sold them on the street and was regularly getting into fights at bars. But he also knows the joy of finding forgiveness and new...
Robert has spent nearly twenty years behind bars. Throughout his adult life, he has struggled to break free from a pattern of going to prison, getting released and returning to prison. He traces this cycle back to abuse he endured at the age of eleven. “I carried that...
