Alarming Statistics!

• Five out of seven inmates are from broken homes

• The Colorado prison population is growing rapidly and is now at 23,000.

Miraculous Statistics!

An example of God’s enabling power: less than 5% of inmates who complete a series of Bible correspondence courses while in jail will return to prison while 70% of the general prison population returns.

The Dilemma

In 1993, the Colorado legislature passed the Long Bill removing seven full-time prison chaplains from the state payroll. That action has removed essentially all evangelical chaplains from state-sponsored prison ministry.