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Prisoners Find ‘Something Bigger Than Themselves’
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published November 10, 2005LeThicia Davis, a counselor who coordinates the Faith and Character-Based Dormitory at Hays State Prison, is already seeing positive signs of change among prisoners from the state’s pilot initiative. She recalled one inmate, who had severe behavioral problems and had been in and out of prison since the age of 17, who was transformed through […] Full Story
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Two Inmates Find Faith’s Freedom Inside Prison
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published November 10, 2005Hays State Prison inmate Michael Roberts is at peace for the first time in his life as he and fellow inmate Matthew Cahill took important steps on their journeys of conversion to the Catholic faith and to follow Jesus Christ. Archbishop-emeritus John F. Donoghue, wearing red and gold vestments and miter, baptized and confirmed Roberts […]
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Faith-Based Project Aims To Fight Inmate Recidivism
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published July 22, 2004Ecumenism is in action at the maximum security Hays State Prison in Trion, where 68 Catholic, Protestant, Muslim and men of every other faith represented there have eagerly moved into a new “faith/character dorm,” a pilot program just launched there and in five other correctional institutions across Georgia. The Hays program is expected to start […] Full Story
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Volunteers Help Inmates Create Catholic Community
By PRISCILLA GREEAR, Staff Writer
Published July 22, 2004It was after Joseph Barnes committed his life to Jesus while living six and a half years on death row and studying his childhood Bible that doors started opening. He had his death sentence commuted and received life in prison—and hope in Christ and his Hays State Prison Roman Catholic Community. Barnes, who has five […] Full Story