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  • Taking Jesus to Jail for the LA Times Sunday Magazine.
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  • Taking Jesus to Jail for the LA Times Sunday Magazine.
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  • Undocumented immigrants are deported from  LA County Jail in California. California is home to the largest population of undocumented immigrants in the nation. The federal government started a pilot program to staff LA County Jail 24 hours a day to detain and deport criminal undocumented immigrants. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • ..Alternating between despair and joy, inmate Rose D. Brown enjoys the gospel songs being sung by members of the Bill Glass Prison Ministry inside the Twin Towers Jail, part of the sprawling LA County Jail. The ministry sent hundreds of volunteers into the world's largest jail system for 48-hours to convince the convicts to become Christians.
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  • An inmate with a jail issued cross inside the segregation unit at Pitchess Honor Rancho, one of the ten different units that comprise the sprawling Los Angeles County Jail system which houses 21,000 inmates, the world's largest jail population.
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  • Undocumented immigrants are deported from LA County Jail in California. California is home to the largest population of undocumented immigrants in the nation. The federal government started a pilot program to staff LA County Jail 24 hours a day to detain and deport criminal undocumented immigrants. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • Huey Nguyen, right, a ex-con who frequents prisons preaching Christian salvation for Breakout Ministries as well as Bill Glass  Prison Ministry, greets inmates at Pitchess Honor Rancho, one of the ten different units that comprise the sprawling Los Angeles County Jail system which houses 21,000 inmates, the world's largest jail population.
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  • ..The Bill Glass Prison Ministry draws Christian volunteers from all over the country to preach inside the nation's prison. The typical 48-hour weekend blitz will result in the volunteers preaching, as was the case here in Los Angeles, in ten different facilities in an effort to reach 21,000 inmates. These counselors try to catch a quick nap between groups of inmates inside the Chapel at Mens Central Jail in Los Angeles.
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  • Inmate Paul Zelaya listens with fellow inmates at Pitchess Honor Rancho to a Christian volunteer exorting the virtues of Christianity. Pitchess is part of the sprawling LA County Jail system that houses 21,000 inmates, the world's largest prison population.
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  • ..Inmates reach for free Christian literature inside the Pitchess Honor Rancho, part of the sprawling LA County Jail system that houses 21,000 inmates, the world's largest prison population. The books are titled "The Four Spiritual Laws," writeen in Spanish for the large spanish-speaking prison population. The Christian volunteers are not allowed to bring in Bibles.
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  • ..Inmates are approached by volunteer Christians who were preaching for 48-hours inside the Pitchess Honor Rancho, part of the sprawling LA County Jail system. Over 5100 inmates, according to records kept by the Bill Glass Prison Ministry, were born-again during that time.
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  • Avery Clayton worked to open an African American museum in Culver City, California where he will project a life-size hologram of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., making a speech from a Birmingham, AL jail.
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  • ..Plane State Jail inmate Shirley Berry breaks down and is comforted by a volunteer counselor after being led through the "Sinners Prayer" and being born-again as a Christian.
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  • ..Coming from 36 different states as well as Puerto Rico,  Christian evangelists descended on Los Angeles in January for a chance to preach to the world's largest jail population for 48 hours. The volunteer counselors, answering a call to service from the Bill Glass Prison Ministry, kicked the mission off with a prayer for success in converting the convicts into Christians.
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  • ..After appealing to thousands of inmates for two days to follow him to salvation via Christianity, a volunteer counselor for the Bill Glass Prison Ministry says goodbye on Sunday morning at the Pitchess Honor Rancho, part of the sprawling LA County Jail system.
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  • .Volunteer counselors stress the significance of preaching to inmates in segregation for they are often the most open to salvation. Many convicts avoid Christian counselors while in the general prison population for fear of being seen as weak. Here, Tanya Wilkens prays with a volunteer counselor in isolation at Plane State Jail in Texas.
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  • Robert Atwater at the Taft Federal Correctional Facility in Bakersfield, California, USA. Photographed for Sports Illustrated....
    Robert Atwater in prison.
  • Undocumented immigrants arrested by US Border Patrol in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • .Conrad Vela was baptized Christian while incarcerated in a Texas prison. He was in the isolation unit at Goree and attends prison services when not in isolation. Many prisons require inmates to attend several Chapel services before issuing Bibles and crosses. Vela was allegedly released from prison but convicted of additional crimes and subsequently re-incarcerated.
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  • .Gust Paleologos, seated, and Richard Quick, take time in the segregated unit at Pitchess Honor Rancho to pray with an inmate as another volunteer Christian counselor greets an inmate in the background. Bill Glass is adament about his volunteers taking on a fatherly role to the inmates who often are without family.
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  • Undocumented immigrants in the federal detention center in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • Undocumented immigrants arrested by US Border Patrol in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • US Border Patrol work the Yuma, Arizona border with Mexico on lookout for undocumented immigrants. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • US Border Patrol work the Yuma, Arizona border with Mexico on lookout for undocumented immigrants. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants arrested by US Border Patrol in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • Undocumented immigrants in the federal detention center in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • Undocumented immigrants caught during the previous night by the Border Patrol are processed for deportation in a detention facility in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • Inmates Santiago Marin, front left, Vera Monico, Larry Gooden, center, and Willie Charleston, right, pray during service in yard at Coffield Prison in Texas where the Bill Glass Ministry appealed to 4200 inmates in a 48 hour blitz to lead them to salvation as born-again Christians.
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  • ..Michael Lowe finds solitude with his pocket Bible as the ministry preaches nearby at the Michael Prison near Palestine, Texas.
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  • ..Many of the volunteer Christian counselors who traverse the country on behalf of hundreds of prison ministries are ex-cons and bikers who feel they can appeal to the inmates tough nature. Ed Breen has preached in dozens of prisons on behalf of the Bill Glass Ministry.
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  • Undocumented migrants wait in a federal holding cell in Yuma, Arizona to be deported after being picked up in the desert. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented migrants wait in a federal holding cell in Yuma, Arizona to be deported after being picked up in the desert. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • US Border Patrol work the Yuma, Arizona border with Mexico on lookout for undocumented immigrants. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants arrested by US Border Patrol in Yuma, Arizona. The immigrants where the foam, in foreground, on their feet to disguise their tracks. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • Undocumented immigrants arrested by US Border Patrol in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • Undocumented immigrants arrested by US Border Patrol in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants arrested by US Border Patrol in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • Undocumented immigrants in the federal detention center in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Undocumented immigrants in the federal detention center in Yuma, Arizona. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests.
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  • .Bill Glass, who founded the nation?s most fervent frontline prison ministry in 1972 after an illustrious pro football career, asks inmates at Goree Prison in Hunstsville, Texas to leave a life of crime behind and commit themselves to a Christian life.
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  • ..Volunteer counselors move in to pray with inmates on the yard at Coffield Prison near Palestine, Texas. Inmate Marlin Ray Theis, left, said he became a Christian a year earlier at the hands of another prison ministry.
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  • ..Bill Glass appeals to some of the 1500 inmates at the Boyd Prison near Palestine, Texas. He and his army of Christian volunteers preached in nine different prison units in two days, urging thousands of inmates to be ?saved? by his ministry.
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  • Robert Atwater in the Taft Federal Correctional Facility in Bakersfield, California, USA.
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  • A migrant caught entering the country near Yuma, Arizona is held behind doors in a federal detention center before being loaded on a bus and driven back to the border. Please contact Todd Bigelow directly with your licensing requests. PLEASE CONTACT TODD BIGELOW DIRECTLY WITH YOUR LICENSING REQUEST. THANK YOU!
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. The residents are not locked in or restricted to their rooms like jail and are free to visit other residents in the facility.<br />
RELEASE ON FILE
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  • Men chained together and taken to jail after being cited for allegedly Boating Under the Influence on Lake Havasu during Memorial Day weekend.
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  • .En route to their second day ministering at a women?s prison outside Huntsville, a bus load of Christian volunteers pray for success in ?saving? the convicts. By the end of the two day program over 200 inmates at the Plane State Jail were "saved."
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  • People Magazine story on drug offenders being offered rehab instead of jail time.
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. William Jacobson, four days into his treatment, vaccuums the hallways.<br />
RELEASE ON FILE
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders.
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. Jim Stillwel, a former patient nearly 30 yrs ago when he had a heroin addiction,  now runs the facility.
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. Jim Stillwell, director at Impact and former patient as well, understands where the addicts are coming from and offers a combination of strict rules and free affection.
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. John Rohmer, left, Jason Federeci, center and another resident pray to have the strength for recovery during a group meeting.<br />
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. With 95 days into treatment, Russell Ramirez draws a preferred work detail of mowing the courtyard's grass.<br />
RELEASE ON FILE
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. Residents are assigned work duties which include cleaning the restrooms as Elsaid Nemais, right, found out one month into his treatment.<br />
RELEASE ON FILE
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. A group meeting.
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. One resident begins the morning by reading the "Thought for the Day" in the Alcoholics Anonymous book.
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. Residents are assigned work details daily. Tyler Ambrose, using weed wacker, and Jon Alvarado, with leaf blower, were assigned with several others to the gardening crew.<br />
RELEASES ON FILE
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  • Men chained together and taken to jail after being cited for allegedly Boating Under the Influence on Lake Havasu during Memorial Day weekend.
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  • People Magazine story on drug offenders being offered rehab instead of jail time.
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. Kurt McVay, center, assigns daily jobs to the resident offenders. Impact uses former addicts to staff the facility. At right is Elsaid Nemais who was assigned to clean bathrooms.<br />
RELEASES ON FILE
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. Impact employs a no nonsense approach, daily meetings and one-on-one sessions with its' residents. Most sessions, like this one with Jim Stillwell, are held informally outdoors.
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. Jim Stillwell, director at Impact and former patient as well, speaks to residents about the pitfalls or recovery as Leon Khachooni, with hand over face, listens.<br />
RELEASE ON FILE
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  • Impact Center:<br />
Life at the Impact Center, a residence drug treatment facility. Courts are increasingly turning to such facilities as a viable alternative to jail for drug offenders. Left to right, Ramiro Menchaca, Jason Federici, and Jason Green, right, pass time in the courtyard while awaiting work assignments for the day.<br />
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Photos © Todd Bigelow/Aurora<br />
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