Prison Fellowship CEO talks about the future of the ministry

LANSDOWN, Va. (W.) — Mark Earley, president of Prison Fellowship, has been in the news lately. Prison Fellowship is being sued by the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

An Iowa judge has ordered Prison Fellowship's InnerChange Freedom Initiative, a faith-based pre-release program for prisoners, to shut down and repay the state $1.5 million that the state paid InnerChange for the past six years.

Prison Fellowship is appealing the decision.

Earley became president of Prison Fellowship in 2002. It's a ministry most associate with its founder, Chuck Colson, known as President Nixon's "hatchet man" who went to prison on Watergate-related charges but became converted before going to prison.

Earley had a different path to the ministry's helm. He is a former state Senator and Attorney General of Virginia. In an exclusive interview with WordNews.org, he talks about the ministry's future.

"We are at the 30-year mark and our founder Chuck Colson is 75," Earley said. "We're basically in a transition of leadership as we look toward the next 30 years of the ministry."

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