Tairone was raised by his grandparents to go to church every Sunday. But the other six days of the week, his religion was running the streets. And while his grandparents taught him Scripture, his uncles taught him the ins and outs of the drug game. It didn’t take long...
Joshua knows what it feels like to be truly alone. He knows the pain and bruises that come from hitting rock bottom. He also knows the joy of being rescued. When Joshua was sent to prison, he was in a unit without a telephone, and he didn’t have the resources to...
When Jose looks back on his life, he can clearly see two major turning points: the biggest mistake he ever made and the best decision he ever made. After his abusive father abandoned Jose, his mother and his five siblings, Jose watched as his mother struggled to keep...
Locked away in a segregation unit in a Massachusetts prison, Patrick’s thoughts are thousands of miles away in Kenya where his nephew was shot and killed a month ago. When he first heard the news of his nephew’s death, a close friend came to visit him and brought some...
If you were incarcerated, and you had a chance to return to court, contest your sentence and possibly be released early, would you seize that opportunity? Crossroads student John was presented with just such an opportunity—but he chose to stay in prison. Arrested on...
Prison saved my life. It’s a paradoxical statement that we at Crossroads hear quite often. Most people would describe prison as destructive rather than redemptive. But many Crossroads students tell us exactly the opposite. Fernando has been a Crossroads student for...
