Men and women are being incarcerated at an alarming rate. Eighty percent of prisoners are addicts and fifty percent committed their crimes while they were high. More than 70 percent of female prisoners are victims of sexual or physical abuse. While in prison, a persons feelimgs of powerlessness can be overwhelming. Prisoners don't get to choose who they live with, what to eat, what to wear, when To go outside or stay inside. One young way explained that incarceration provides an environment without choices, decisions, or hope...
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"This above all: To thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day .Thou canst not then be false to any man. -Shakespeare, Hamlet
"Show me a grateful alcoholic and I'll show you a sober one" Dick N.
Jesus said, "My Grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness." 2 Corinthians 12:9
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