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The Huntsville Prison Unit releases 150 men from its walls everyday, 5 days a week. The doors swing open, they are given $50 of "gate" money and "We Just Turn 'em out and hope for the best."

These men have spent anywhere from 4years to 11 years, or even 20 years locked up, some of them have families waiting to pick them up, but most do not. The two things these men all have in common is prison, and the fact that according to statistics approximately three-fourths of these men being released EVERYDAY, WILL commit another crime and WILL be put back in prison.

Unless we do something to help them Change.

Steve Blow in the Dallas Morning News today reminds us that:

"The front end of the justice program we know well. Crime and arrest, trial, and sentencing – All that gets a lot of attention. But the back end occurs largely out of sight, though it's just as or more important in the fight against crime."

Worldwide Voice in the Wilderness deals with this large unseen portion of this criminal justice program. We are in the prisons, in the parole offices, on the streets all aimed at helping these men and women transition back in to society and become givers not takers.

We have seen and lived the statistics.

We are here to tell you, It is up to us all, as a community, as a city, and as a state to turn these numbers upside down. If we can reach these men and women who are moving back to our city and into our neighborhoods and commit to them our time and our resources we WILL make a difference and we WILL see the Change.

Fewer criminals = less crime.

This takes work and it takes money, and it takes a commitment of passionate people to step up and say "Yes, I want a safer neighborhood for my family".

Worldwide Voice In the Wilderness is committed to doing just that. We want to not only bring the gospel to the Prisons of the state we want the State Prison to release men and women who are not looking to commit another crime when released but who want to start a new life without a crime and without pain. We are looking to help these men and women Change not just for themselves, but for all of us.

These men and women are our future neighbors here in Dallas, please stand with WVIW and Together, Let's make a way for these men and women to have a chance at a better, safer and happier life.

Please Visit our Website for more info and to make an online donation towards a

Safer State and Safer Country.

Blow, S. (2009, July 27). Newly freed inmates face different walls on the outside. Retrieved July 27th, 2009, from DallasNews.com: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/sblow/stories/DN-blow_26met.ART0.Central.Edition1.4bb7b19.html

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