Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries
More than 30 years ago, Charles W. Colson was not thinking about reaching out to prison inmates or reforming the U.S. penal system. In fact, this aide to President Richard Nixon was "incapable of humanitarian thought," according to the media of the mid-1970s.
Colson was known as the White House "hatchet man," a man feared by even the most powerful politicos during his four years of service to President Nixon.
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President and CEO, Prison Fellowship Ministries
Mark Earley had his own share of legal issues before taking the reins of Prison Fellowship Ministries in 2002 as president and CEO.
Not as an offender, but as an attorney. And it's given him unique insights into the kind of people who go to prison and what can help them stay out.
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Vice President, Prison Fellowship Ministries
In 1994 California Assemblyman Pat Nolan faced an incredibly tough decision. He could fight the federal corruption charges against him-charges he had consistently denied during a six-year FBI investigation. Pat's attorney assured him he had a strong case. But the government had indicted him with six counts of wrongdoing; a conviction on any one of those counts would mean more than eight years in prison.
But the government also gave him a relatively easy out: Plead guilty to one count and get only 33 months in prison.
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