Barbara (Basia) Skudrzyk reported to the Satellite Camp at Greenville Federal Correctional Institution on June 3, 2019 to serve a thirty-three month sentence. She has been a member of our White Collar Support Group for about nine months, and will be writing letters regularly for publication on prisonist.org. Dear Jeff, Thank you for staying in…
Jeff talks criminal justice reform, white collar ministry, overcoming opioid addiction and devotion to service with Toni Quest and Peter Elvidge on the Seeing Beneath the Surface Podcast, Episode 60. Listen on YouTube: Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/seeing-beneath-the-surface/id1274257837 Listen on Facebook:
I received this email from a new member of our Confidential Online White Collar Support Group from Ohio. I was so moved that I had to share it with you. This is exactly why I became a minister to those with white collar and other nonviolent criminal justice issues. Please feel free to email your thoughts…
Completely unsure how he got there, a man finds himself locked in small shack, on a sandy beach next to the ocean. The shack is very small, and somehow it is also air tight. No air can get in and he starts to panic that he will soon run out of air. There is door…
From Defy & Hustle: OPIOID ADDICTION, FRAUD, PRISON & now MINISTRY Radio/Podcast: Hear the transformational story of Reverend Jeff Grant on Defy & Hustle Radio with Noreen Ehrlich and Kelly Trepanier on WGCH.com or WGCH 1490AM Greenwich in which we discussed ethics, white collar crime, money, morality and learn how Progressive Prison Ministries helps individuals,…
Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, 9 am ET, Aaron T. Kinzel, Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, was our guest on Criminal Justice Insider with Babz Rawls Ivy & Jeff Grant – The Voice of CT Criminal Justice. Live on WNHH 103.5 FM New Haven, rebroadcast at 5 pm. Live-streamed and…
In 1981, the AIDS epidemic began, and I was living in ground zero, New York City. I had come out at a very young and precocious 16, and had enjoyed an extremely hedonistic life when I went to college at NYU – lots of drinking and sleeping around, all while still managing to do well in film school. At 21, the future was extremely…
By Markeshia Ricks, Reprinted from New Haven Independent, May 31, 2019 Tarra Simmons thought she was going to escape the fate of the family she was born into — a family where everyone had been incarcerated and everyone suffered from a substance abuse disorder. And for a while she did. Watch on YouTube: Listen on…
We all have a story, rich in plot and full of characters. The chapters progress in chronological order, mostly, weaving the fine details of our lives through the colorful fabric. And, within our tales, there is often conflict and resolution, action and stillness, heartbreak and joy. The setting can feel predetermined, the families and homes…
We all have a story, rich in plot and full of characters. The chapters progress in chronological order, mostly, weaving the fine details of our lives through the colorful fabric. And, within our tales, there is often conflict and resolution, action and stillness, heartbreak and joy. The setting can feel predetermined, the families and homes…