Theo

Theo

February 28th, 1997 was my first day of incarceration at Cook County Jail. I was in a place that I didn’t want to be, I felt abandoned and alone. Even when I was in the streets, I would always pray and ask God to let me see another day, another week, another year. I...
Juanita Buie

Juanita Buie

“It was a great help to me as a single mom to have someone show they cared for my daughter and I by taking time to bring Christmas gifts to us.” Juanita Buie grew up on the west side of Chicago and came to know Chicagoland Prison Outreach through a...
Jordan Coley

Jordan Coley

Jordan Coley says she was just in the right place at the right time. She had spent a brief time with Safer Foundation, a non-profit focused on development of those with a criminal record, when her mother saw a Facebook post advertising free vocational classes at a...
Johnathon Ivory

Johnathon Ivory

Johnathon entered Cook County Jail in 2014 and after four years of carrying the weight of his situation his life was changed, “I ended up going to some place I didn’t want to be which was the Life Learning...
Calvin Yoder

Calvin Yoder

Calvin Yoder was born and raised in an Amish family and made the choice to leave the community at age 16. He was arrested after robbing his parents at a young age and found himself in prison. While incarcerated in Westville, Indiana, he received a flyer for the Life...