WASHINGTON – As Congress jostles and wrestles with one another over how to best spend billions of tax dollars to resuscitate the economy, a prison ministry approached the government with ideas on how to not spend and instead save billions.
Pat Nolan, vice president of Prison Fellowship, moderated a panel discussion hosted by the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security on Tuesday that examined how community-based re-entry programs are significantly more cost-effective and successful in keeping ex-inmates out of prison.