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Statement of the Coalition for Compassion |
Under the auspices of the Free Congress Foundation, the Coalition for Compassion was formed to promote equal standing for faith-based social service providers with other social service groups. Below is a statement of purpose signed by the Coalition's member organizations in April 2001.
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Graduates of Faith-Based Prison Program Less Likely to Return to Prison |
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University of Pennsylvania Study Shows Inmates Who Graduate From Prison Fellowship's InnerChange Freedom Initiative are Less Likely to Return to Incarceration
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Sordid Reminders of Failure? |
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By Mark Earley|Published Date: June 29, 2009
I just came across the following news wire report: “The federal government, [after] a painstaking three years of intensive [study], admitted that the prisons of the United States stand as ‘sordid reminders of failure’ as forces in the rehabilitation of criminals.”
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The Evidence for Community Initiatives |
In the old West End, an evening stroll could end in tragedy. Drug dealers swarmed the alleys and crime infested this four-block section of High Point, North Carolina, making outdoor activity dangerous. In the new West End, children romp unafraid through the streets and neighbors can enjoy an idle chat on their porches. The dramatic change is not the product of door-smashing sting operations, the typical tactic in the war on drugs. Rather, tribute belongs to a much calmer yet much more powerful strategy: the High Point West End Initiative.
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By Tamela Baker|Published Date: June 02, 2009
About 30 miles southeast of Buffalo, in the small municipality of Batavia, New York, quaint old homes flanked by older trees line well-kept streets. Children giggle and tease on the way home from school. Traffic gets a little heavy right around five. Batavia, the county seat of Genesee County, could have come right out of a Norman Rockwell painting. Nobody would guess that something radical is happening in this conservative enclave of Western New York.
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By T.M. Moore|Published Date: January 09, 2009
I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh…as to righteousness, under the law blameless. (Philippians 3:4,6)
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