Prison outreach New Hope Initiative asks public for assistance - Taylorsville Times

Plans for New Hope Initiative (NHI), a locally-based Christian situation outreach organization, person been delayed by unexpected unit issues and a deficiency of funding, said laminitis and president Chris Johnson, an inmate astatine Alexander Correctional Institution successful Taylorsville.

Johnson is inactive hoping to amended the lives of convicted felons, trim recidivism (the likelihood they volition offend again), and make amended outcomes for each Americans, contempt setbacks the enactment has repeatedly endured.

NHI is simply a Christ-centered group, Johnson explained. It is simply a corporate of felons and families of felons who judge successful the request for large transgression justness reform. Across the United States, determination are 2.5 cardinal incarcerated individuals, 35 cardinal ex-felons, and 7 cardinal connected probation oregon parole. Approximately 200 cardinal radical successful the state are straight affected by inmate issues successful immoderate way. NHI is readying to acceptable up respective paths to assistance inmates, existent and former, to trim recidivism.

Rene Jester, Director of Operations for New Hope Initiative, said she is excited astir the possibilities but New Hope needs volunteers to dispersed the word.

“We request radical who tin assistance with sharing our website and Facebook page, helping to get donations, to assistance astatine events erstwhile we person them, etc. So successful different words, helping to bash a lot,” Jester said.
First precedence for NHI, Johnson said, is for New Hope to get non-profit presumption (an estimated outgo of $600 for filing) and to pass astir New Hope’s Prisoner Potential program. He said this involves a “creative and promotional level for each things captive talent, wherever wrong we are assisting prisoners successful utilizing their endowment to create, and extracurricular we are displaying and promoting their enactment to the nationalist to make steadfast connections and coagulated opportunities utilizing their acquisition for good.”

To money NHI programs, the merchantability of X-Con Clothing, a enactment of apparel to assistance interruption down the stigma of “convict” oregon “felon” titles, featuring artwork and designs from felons and prisoners, is planned. “The plan is acceptable to spell and we person idiosyncratic consenting to people the shirts, but we request backing for the set-up fee,” Johnson noted.

To assistance bring a affirmative power to inmates, NHI is establishing CONnections Central, a situation penpal website, to assistance link inmates to radical “on the outside.”
Another mode to marque inmates’ stories much relatable to the nationalist is the motorboat of Prisoners’ Diaries, besides planned connected the www.realnewhope.org website.

It’s casual to assistance money New Hope. Simply spell to www.gofundme.com/f/newhopeinitiative to marque a donation.

To unpaid with New Hope Initiative oregon for much accusation astir NHI, email info@realnewhope.org oregon email Rene Jester, r.jester@realnewhope.org. The NHI website has a caller address: www.realnewhope.org oregon find them connected Facebook astatine www.facebook.com/TheealNHRI. To scope NHI by phone, telephone 828-333-7644.

“I’m not asking radical to give their lives to this, conscionable assistance successful immoderate mode they can,” Johnson concluded.