Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.
Jeff Grant, JD, M Div, Director, Lynn Springer, Founding Advocate
White-Collar Ministry I Advocacy I Service
Faith & Dignity for the Days Ahead
The first ministry in the United States created to provide confidential
support and counseling to individuals, families and organizations with
white-collar and other nonviolent incarceration issues
In the Holiday 2016 Edition:
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#GivingTuesday: November 29, 2016. Thank You for Your Support!
Progressive Prison Ministries has joined #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving that harnesses the collective power of individuals, communities and organizations to encourage philanthropy and to celebrate generosity worldwide. Donations can be made on #GivingTuesday or today by credit card/PayPal by clicking the image above, at the 'donate" button on our site prisonist.org, or by sending your check payable to: "Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc." P.O. Box 1232, Weston, Connecticut 06883. Donations Are Only Source Of Revenue. We are a CT Religious Corp. with 501(c)(3) status. Thank you for your support this year!
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Significant Outcomes: Since Jan. 2015, We have Served Over 140 Individuals and Families in 25 States:
Since Jan. 2015, we have served individuals and families in
twenty-five states, including:
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington.
We typically communicate with individuals and families before, during and upon reentry from prison in person or by phone, email, Skype, FaceTime, GoToMeeting or, if in a Federal prison, via CorrLinks.
Please click image for our information package.
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News: Family ReEntry Behavioral Health Intensive Outpatient Program in Bridgeport, CT
We would appreciate your referrals! Our best-practices Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) is available in Bridgeport, CT. The program is 12 weeks, 3 days per week, 3 hours per day.
Clients come to Family ReEntry for an intake and full assessment. Assistance with enrollment will be provided to clients eligible for Medicaid (HUSKY). Licensed clinicians will determine the most appropriate level of care and treatment for each client - a tailored approach is based on the RNR principles of risk, needs, and responsivity. Please click image for details.
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News: Our White-Collar/Nonviolent
Online Support Group celebrates its thirtieth weekly meeting!
If you have been convicted of a white-collar or nonviolent crime and have served your sentence, please consider joining our confidential online white-collar/ nonviolent support group [As this support group is being run by clergy as part of a program of pastoral counseling, we consider it to be confidential and privileged]. We hold our weekly group meetings on GoToMeeting on Tuesdays, 8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central, 6pm Mountain, 5 pm Pacific. Click image for details.
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Guest Blog: Why Prisoners
and Ex-Felons Should
Retain the Right to Vote
by Gregg D. Caruso, PhD
6.1 million citizens were barred from voting on election day.
Our friend Gregg D. Caruso is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning and Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network (JWRN) housed at the University of Aberdeen School of Law, Scotland. Click image to read Gregg's article.
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Guest Blog: What's the Use of Regret? by Gordon Marino, PhD
"Kierkegaard observed that you don't change God when you pray, you change yourself. Perhaps it is the same with regret. I can't rewind and expunge my past actions, but perhaps I change who I am in my act of remorse. Henry David Thoreau advised: 'Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.' To live afresh is to be morally born again." Click image to read Gordon's Op-Ed.
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Event: We Will be Leading a Workshop at the UMC Reentry Conference, Jan. 29 & Feb 4, 2017
Louis K. Reed (Program Director of the City of Bridgeport Initiative on Reentry) and I will be leading a workshop at the United Methodist Church Board of Church & Society Reentry Conference. Click image for details.
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Save the Date: We Will Be Leading a Workshop at the CMCA Reentry Conference, May 5-6, 2017
Please join us in Philadelphia as Jeffrey Abramowitz and I will be leading "You Got to Have Faith: An Inside Look at Reentry" at the 5th Annual Correctional Ministries and Chaplains Assn. Summit, May 5-6, 2017. Click image for information and to register.
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Interview: Jeff Talked Criminal Justice with Felipe Luciano, WBAI Radio FM 99.5 NYC
Click image to listen to Felipe & Jeff discuss faithful responses to criminal justice issues in America (at 19.00). Jeff & Felipe were classmates at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.
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Article: Our Ministry Featured in Business Insider
Rachael Levy wrote a powerful article about our ministry, "This is What it's Like When the 1% go to Jail, According to a Couple that Ministers to Their Families." Click image to read article.
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Contact Information:
If transformation and redemption matter to you, a friend or a family member with a white-collar or nonviolent incarceration issue, please contact us and we will promptly send you an information package by mail, email or via Dropbox. The darkest days of a person's life can be a time of renewal and hope.
Blessings, כן, מאוד
Jeff & Lynn
Prisonist.org: Progressive Prison Project/Innocent Spouse & Children Project are missions of Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc.
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 1232
Weston, Connecticut 06883
(o) 203-769-1096
Rev. Deacon Jeff Grant, JD, M Div, Director
Lynn Springer, Founding Advocate
Innocent Spouses, Children & Families
(m) 203-536-5508
Rev. Monsignor Joseph Ciccone, Ed D, M Div
Supervising Minister
stjosephmissionchurch@gmail.com
(201) 982-2206
Jacqueline Polverari, MBA, MSW, Advocate
Women's Incarceration Issues
jpolverari@prisonist.org
(203) 671-5139
George Bresnan, Advocate, Ex-Pats
(m) 203-609-5088
Jim Gabal, Development
(m) 203-858-2865
Babz Rawls Ivy, Media Contact
(m) 203-645-9278
Faith & Dignity for the Days Ahead
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