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| Handcuffing prisons |
| By World Magazine |
| Published: 08/04/2006 |
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NEWTON, IA Terry Mapes is a man modest enough to accept help when someone offers. At the Newton Correctional Facility in central Iowa, he knows from hands-on experience just how needy America's prison community has become. Several years ago when he was a young prison officer, three enraged inmates beat up Mapes and left him for dead. So when Mapes became warden here in 2001 and discovered that Prison Fellowshipthe largest prison ministry in the worldhad joined Iowa's Department of Corrections (DOC) in shaping a program to help inmates prepare for life outside prison, he did not hesitate to endorse the effort. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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