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Multimedia: Prison chaplaincy featured in documentary
(11/17/2006) The ministry of chaplains serving the State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana, is the focus of an Episcopal Church documentary titled "Changing Lives: Behind the Walls at Angola."
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Prison ministries, documentary featured in bulletin insert for November 19
(11/10/2006) Prison ministry including a new feature-length documentary on chaplains' work at Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary is the focus of a new Sunday service leaflet insert designed for use on November 19.
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Religion writers told there are good stories in prison
(5/4/2006) Prison inmates who take part in religious programs inside prisons are less likely to go back to crime when they get out, but they are confronted by "challenges that never stop," members of the Associated Church Press learned April 25.
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Prison ministry is focus of new documentary, reporting series
(3/31/2006) "Changing Lives: Behind the Walls at Angola" is the title of a new feature-length video documentary following the effects of an Episcopal chaplain's ministry inside a prison once considered the bloodiest in America: the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana
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Criminal justice requires united effort, Means says
(8/22/2005) Calling on all dioceses and denominations to help
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Church takes prison ministry to dioceses
(5/25/2005)
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EXODUS: Helping Others on the Way to Successful Reentry
(4/21/2005) Sponsored by the Office of Peace and Justice Ministries, the conference will focus on opportunities for the Christian community to help make today's inamte tomorrow's good neighbor.
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Congregations Inside Create Hope
(4/13/2005) North Carolina Prison Ministry Conference stresses thinking outside the box when dealing with prisons, inmates.
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Christian Community Squeezes through Bars
(3/1/2005) Twenty lay and clergy prison ministers on a pilgrimage from a dozen states journeyed March 1 to the Louisiana State Penitentiary – once called the “bloodiest prison in America.”
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Prison ministers see political winds shift towards re-entry, training
(5/6/2004) News of a shift in political attitudes toward criminal justice reform marked the 8th National Prison Ministry Conference, held April 29-May 1, 2004.
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National Prison Ministry Summit to hear ex-inmates, officials
(4/22/2004) A former inmate who moved hundreds of thousands of people with his daily meditations for Forward Day By Day will lead meditations at the national Episcopal Prison Ministry Conference April 29-May 1 in Texas.
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Prison ministry dangerous but necessary, delegates told
(6/12/2002) 'Prison ministry is a very dangerous profession,' psychotherapist Dr. Margaret Kornfeld told the Seventh National Prison Ministry Conference, meeting June 6-9 at Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis. 'Working in a toxic environment is stressful.'
Serving as the conference chaplain, Kornfeld, the author of 'Cultivating Wholeness' and president of the American Pastoral Counseling Association, declared that 'the prison system is reinforcing violence in this country and is part of the violenc...
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