Prison Entrepreneurship Program

According to the Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) one out of 100 Americans is in jail or prison with a total population of 2.3 million incarcerated people. Wow! Those are huge numbers! Life in prison creates a cycle  – commit a crime, go to prison, get released, commit a crime, go back to prison. This cycle only helps […]

The Victim Offender Reconciliation Program

Mediation for victims of crimes, their families, and the offenders is a large part of finding restitution for the crime and having that crime reoccur. The Victim Offender Reconciliation Program, based in Fresno, California, is a faith-based nonprofit organization that provides voluntary, non-fee mediation services to victims of juvenile crime and their offenders. The Victim Offender […]

Jack Daniel McCullough Released

Jack Daniel McCullough, a 76-year-old veteran and former police officer, was convicted in 2012 of the 1957 abduction and murder of a young girl in perhaps the oldest cold case in the nation to go to trial. He was sentenced to life in prison and his murder conviction was affirmed on appeal. See: People v. […]