Cell of the Heart
Prison Outreach Program
Retired
The United States has the largest population of incarcerated in the world. Consider not only the isolation of the imprisoned, but the poverty, loneliness and shame of the families of loved ones living in prison? Beginning in 2008 we began making Christmas cards for the men at Sing Sing Prison to send home to their families. The project has grown to include annual Mother’s Day Cards, Christmas Cards, and prayer cards each year, along with correspondence, visits and retreats on “God’s Mercy” inside the prisons.
Our outreach expanded to include support for supporting shelter dogs going into the prisons, along with local involvement in providing prayer cards for parishes with prison outreach projects.
“Refuge in Hell: Finding God in Sing Sing” by Ronald Lemmert, former Catholic Chaplain at Sing Sing prison features Debra Classen’s art, which also hangs in the chapels at Sing Sing and at San Quentin.
Front of Holiday Card sent to the imprisoned of San Quentin in California & Sing Sing in New York.
Inside of the Holiday Card sent to the imprisoned of San Quentin in California & Sing Sing in New York.
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