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Leaving prison is not as celebrated as when the convicted are punished. There is far more fanfare to the banishing process than there is to the returning of our prodigals. In the U.S. we attach much more meaning to our sending away and I believe this is because it is in punishments and not rehabilitation that we place our priority. The truth is, it is the coming home, the returning to society, that demands a more intentional response if we are to keep and ensure a civil socie

Coming back allowed me to see—not just through screens or headlines, but face to face. I saw the pain in people I love, in people I share history with. The kind of pain you can’t understand from a distance. I’m not here to deliver something. I’m here to discover something—with them. Because the real gift isn’t in some program or intervention. The real gift is in us—our conversations, our shared memories, our presence with one another. And being with them, not as a provider of

By Robert Lilly- A Paroled Prisoner in Amerika 2049 Believers accept the idea of a ‘life’ after death. They see death as a door, a passageway to a ‘new’ life. Or at the very least, a departure from one condition to another. Even for the skeptic, one can concede that there are times in life when what, at first looks like the end, is only the beginning of something new. Leaving prison to reenter society can be seen similarly. The prisoner ‘finishes’ their sentence only to begin