Twenty years ago the Brazilian government turned a prison near the city of Sao Jose dos Campos, over to two Christians. It was renamed Humaita, to be run on Christian principles.
With the exception of two full-time staff, all work is done by inmates. Chuck Colson visited the prison and made this report:
I found the inmates smiling - particularly the murderer who opened the gates and let me in. Wherever I walked I saw men at peace. I saw clean living areas, people working industriously. The walls were decorated with Biblical sayings.
My guide escorted me to the torture cell. "Today", he told me, "that block houses only a single inmate. As we reached the end of a long concrete corridor and he hesitated.
Slowly he swung open the massive door, and I saw the prisoner in that punishment cell: a crucifix, beautifully carved by the Humaita inmates - the prisoner Jesus, hanging on a cross.
"He's doing time for the rest of us," my guide said softly."
With the exception of two full-time staff, all work is done by inmates. Chuck Colson visited the prison and made this report:
I found the inmates smiling - particularly the murderer who opened the gates and let me in. Wherever I walked I saw men at peace. I saw clean living areas, people working industriously. The walls were decorated with Biblical sayings.
My guide escorted me to the torture cell. "Today", he told me, "that block houses only a single inmate. As we reached the end of a long concrete corridor and he hesitated.
Slowly he swung open the massive door, and I saw the prisoner in that punishment cell: a crucifix, beautifully carved by the Humaita inmates - the prisoner Jesus, hanging on a cross.
"He's doing time for the rest of us," my guide said softly."
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