Inspiring Music - Some With Lyrics - for use by Stepping Stones Gathering weekly call-in meeting and worship service.
Stepping Stones Playlist
Mass Incarceration Reports
The Prison Policy Institute has issued an annual “Mass Incarceration: the Whole Pie” report since 2014. An additional groundbreaking PPI report was recently issued called “Women’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023.” Data about women prisoners are often hard to find on the 172,700 women and girls incarcerated in the USA. More information will be presented by Katy Dickinson in "Women of Faith in Jail” at the GTU Graduate Student Conference: Women and Religion, at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, on 28 April 2023.
St. Joan’s Chapel
The Episcopal Diocese of El Camino Real (ECR) parishes have had active jail ministries in Santa Clara County for over sixty years. In 2022, we created Saint Joan's Chapel to expand and coordinate services to the community of inmates and those in reentry and recovery in our county. St. Joan's Chapel is named in honor of Saint Joan of Arc (1412-1431). Click to keep reading...
Inspiration Inside
For chaplains meeting by Zoom with county jail inmates, here are some music selections and inspiring talks that may fit in well with your presentations. Click to keep reading...
Hear My Voice: A Prison Prayer Book
_Hear My Voice: A Prison Prayer Book_ is a new resource about praying to God and listening for God in prison.
Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2019
"Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2019" report by By Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wagner, Prison Policy Initiative
Contra Costa County: Organizations and Programs
Contra Costa: Organizations and Programs - description, web location, and other information for the community of the incarcerated, ex-inmates, and volunteers who want to help.
Marin County: Organizations and Programs
Marin County: Organizations and Programs - description, web location, and other information for the community of the incarcerated, ex-inmates, and volunteers who want to help.
Bay Area Volunteers Needed
Organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area seeking volunteers to benefit the incarcerated, ex-inmates, and their communities.
Outside Bay Area: Organizations and Programs
Outside Bay Area: Organizations and Programs - description, web location, and other information for the community of the incarcerated, ex-inmates, and volunteers who want to help.
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