Get Involved

Start by building relationships inside your own congregation, organization, or network with those persons affected by incarceration.

Commit to working through a curriculum of study and dialogue that includes shared experiences, books, movies, and guest speakers.

Create Healing Communities committed to organizing resources. “Faith communities are familiar with prison ministries, and more recently with the phenomenon of prisoner reentry, which reflects the simple fact that most inmates do return to society. A Healing Community strives to restore relationships between returning citizens and their families, communities, the larger society and, where possible, the victims of their criminal behavior.”

Create a host-home hospitality program following innovative and award winning examples that are scalable and already being implemented in other parts of the country.

Create a network of property owners who can provide housing to break the barriers to reentry that discriminate against citizens with felony records who have already paid their debts but continue to be punished. Create a local jobs network of employers that will hire returning citizens.

Create or participate in a micro-lending loan program to support returning citizens with financial needs who have been shut out of traditional banking relationships.

Assist families and the incarcerated with food, communications, and visitations.

Learn more about the food and communications justice reform campaigns being waged by groups trying to put an end to profiteering and predatory practices by private prison vendors and the states and counties that hire them.