I recently took a tour of Rikers Island, an overcrowded jail facility in New York City that holds an average population of nearly 10,000 prisoners. As I met with some of the men and women locked up in this facility, I faced the sobering reminder that many of them have...
Crossroads Prison Ministries staff and volunteers in Kenya are making an incredible impact in the lives of men and women in prison throughout the country. The team of 25 volunteer mentors travel, sometimes great distances, to prisons to hand deliver Crossroads Bible...
Rammel grew up without knowing his mother or father. He was raised by his aunt, and he had two godmothers who made sure he attended church regularly. “Although I did not enjoy church much, I learned a lot, and eventually got baptized and saved,” says Rammel. As a...
Dear Friends, When heavy rains and mudslides devastated Sierra Leone in August, killing more than 1,000 people, most relief efforts ignored the people who are so often forgotten — prisoners. But Lahai Kargbo, the young director of Crossroads Sierra Leone, was...
Vinson found himself in prison again, convicted of driving while intoxicated—his sixth DWI offense. This time, he was sentenced to twenty years. Looking back on this cycle throughout his life—getting arrested, going to prison, being released and then...
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 our biannual arts journal, Threads, on our Facebook page and in our Prison Art Project Gallery. We recently received...
