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What role should churches play in reducing the high rates of incarceration in inner-city neighborhoods?

We need to come out of the church, go into the streets and connect directly with the offenders and at-risk youth, and provide direct support and intervention through the church, aligned with social agencies. We must remember that we are our brothers’ keepers.
 Velma DuPont
Singer/Poet
Boston
The church needs to bridge the gulf between the body of Christ and the soul of the community to develop strategies not on how to improve the conditions of prisons, but to create programs to develop conditions to keep folks out of them.
 Charles Walker Jr.
State Attorney
Boston
The church can be proactive by going out in the street and simply talking. The church can also create mentoring and counseling programs that are open to the public.
 Simone Cunningham
Corporate Paralegal
Dedham
Combine biblical principles with an understanding of social concerns to implement programs with emphasis on education and skill development.
 Rev. George Walters-Skyon
Author
Dorchester
Create more training and education opportunity. Develop a system that will reach out to communities.
 Jesse Gibson
Pastor
Worcester
I believe that a majority of ministers have forgotten their purpose: service, specifically, and saving souls.
 Mabel Reid-Wallace
School Administrator
Cambridge