Every day, Prison Fellowship volunteers help make a difference in the lives of prisoners, ex-offenders, and their families. To see how, read these amazing stories of transformation.
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By Becky Beane|Published Date: August 06, 2009
 The following story originally appeared in the July 2008 issue of Inside Out online magazine. To subscribe to Inside Out, click here.
Jill Colon gave her life to Christ the first time she was in prison, but back on the outside she followed her husband into a drug-destructive lifestyle. Otherwise, “I was afraid he would leave me,” as he had done once before, she recalls.
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By Jeff Peck|Published Date: June 23, 2009
 Terrance Williams-Bey didn't always carry a gun. But after local competitors in the drug trade robbed him of the large wads of cash he enjoyed carrying, it was time to get serious. Terrance also had another problem—a man was stealing his girl's affections. On April 7,1995, Terrance tucked a nickel-plated .380 handgun in his jacket. About that night Terrance remembers, "I wasn't going to move, he wasn't going to move . . . I was thinking, I'm not going to lose."
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By Zoe Sandvig|Published Date: June 22, 2009
 Robbie Robinson arrived in handcuffs for his son's funeral. Then he stood up and told his family and friends about Christ.
His mother hardly recognized the son who stood before her with peace in his eyes—a young man whose life up until that point had been stamped by drugs, violence, and prison time.
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By Becky Beane|Published Date: June 04, 2009
 Young Daniel Wickham sat alone in a four-by-eight-foot holding cell, shut off from all the other inmates. He was a kid in a man's world-a greasy-haired 16-year-old who looked even younger, so the officers kept him away from the older men. The seriousness of his crime had put him there, waiting to be tried as an adult. He was on 24-hour lockdown, except for a brief shower every other day.
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By Catherine Claire|Published Date: June 02, 2009
Diverse paths converge at the Philadelphia Ex-Offender Aftercare Program
Addicted to misery and clutching a thick wad of twenties in his coat pocket, repeat offender Steven Gass stumbles down 19th Street. Word on the street: Omar Shabazz is back in South Philly from his stay in a California prison, and “the man’s got a terrible package.”
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By Zoe Sandvig|Published Date: June 02, 2009
A Mom’s Troubled Sons Find New Life Through a Church’s Love
Enter Vince and Joe Lara, unruly, foulmouthed, and skeptical about camp. They fought, drank, smoked dope, stole money from a fountain at the mall, and couldn’t care less about school or church. Their stepfather and older brother were in prison, and their mom, Jill, who worked full-time for a medical supply company, could barely control them. “My greatest fear was that they were going to follow in [their brother’s] footsteps,” Jill said. “They wouldn’t listen . . . I would tell them to come home and they wouldn’t.”
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