Friends of Incarcerated People - LifePath's Story

The first-ever PrisonCare Compassion Team started with a group of people at a little church called LifePath. But this was not a religious thing at all -- in fact, it was intentionally NOT religious -- so what DID characterize it? What do new friends, new good friends, for incarcerated people look like? 

TIME MARKERS:

(3:00) A story of true friends

(4:45) Why we don’t solicit

(5:30) The “90 Second Version” of the Roots of PrisonCare, Inc.

(7:00) Seeing it on EVERYONE’s faces

(8:45) Yay, Team! (connections on the inside)

(9:45) And then came COVID

(10:35) Yay, Team! (connections on the outside, too)

(12:15) Staff, too? Yup. A Pivotal Moment of Understanding.

(14:20) How do incarcerated people make new, good friends?

(17:00) Wait, but the first Compassion Team was from a church, right? You just said…

(19:10) Patiently trying to connect to staff

(20:35) The Wrong Kind of Math

(21:50) Your Political Leanings Regarding Prisons are Irrelevant

(23:00) What might happen??

Intro/Outro MUSIC CREDIT:
 We've Come A Long Way (No Vocal Version)
 Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com)
 Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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