Mennonite Weekly Review

Articles : Prison and restorative justice

Dec. 5, 2011 issue

• 

  Jeschke

  Finding grace in prison life

  On my desk is Glimpses of Grace: Reflections of a Prison Chaplain by Donald Stoesz, published by Friesen Press, Victoria, B.C., 2010, 184 pages, $26.

  This book consists of 121 one-page essays reporting the author’s experiences as a prison chaplain or presenting his reflections on a movie or book that provides us a window into the prison world.

July 4, 2011 issue

• Weavers seek ‘healing response’ at sentencing

  The family of Chloe Weaver, a Mennonite Voluntary Service worker who was struck and killed by a truck while bicycling in October in Colorado, made clear that they didn’t want the perpetrator to be incarcerated.

June 20, 2011 issue

• Women’s prison ministry keeps families together

  DENVER — Kindall, an inmate at Denver Women’s Correctional Facility, says she would have aborted her baby if it weren’t for prison and New Horizons Ministries.

Oct. 25, 2010 issue

• More prisons won’t raise safety

  WINNIPEG, Man. — Spending billions on more prisons in Canada won’t create safer communities, according to a spokesman for Mennonite Central Committee.

May 24, 2010 issue

• Fixing broken prison system

  David (name changed to protect identity) lives on the outskirts of a midsized Midwestern town.

Oct. 26, 2009 issue

• Too many prisoners?

  John A. Lapp says, “A spirit of fear has made the United States a warring nation abroad and a prison builder at home.”

Sept. 14, 2009 issue

• Punishment or correction?

  On my desk is Good Punishment? Christian Moral Practice and U.S. Imprisonment by James Samuel Logan, published by Eerdmans, 2008, 261 pages, $20.

July 6, 2009 issue

• Prison ministry inspires volunteer chaplains

  ATMORE, Ala. — Fountain Correctional Facility is called “The Bottom” by prison inmates statewide.
  

April 27, 2009 issue

• FPU helps rehabilitate sex offenders

  FRESNO, Calif. — What do we do when outcasts come back?

April 13, 2009 issue

• Hope for restorative justice?

  In the last week of March, a Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzón, began criminal proceedings against six Bush administration officials for authorizing torture against detainees in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay.

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