Collection 274 Records of Prison Fellowship Ministries
Collection
Identifier: CN-274
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memos, reports, newspaper clippings and other documents describing the founding and development of Prison Fellowship.
Among the subjects covered in the files are the part played in the organization by Charles Colson, the realities of prison ministry, the conditions of prisons in the United States, relations between organizations involved in prison ministries, the testimonies of inmates, and the relationship between PFM and its constituents. Persons featured included those significant in Colson's life and spiritual development. Also documented is the production of the commercially released motion picture, BORN AGAIN, based on Colson's book by the same title.
Among the subjects covered in the files are the part played in the organization by Charles Colson, the realities of prison ministry, the conditions of prisons in the United States, relations between organizations involved in prison ministries, the testimonies of inmates, and the relationship between PFM and its constituents. Persons featured included those significant in Colson's life and spiritual development. Also documented is the production of the commercially released motion picture, BORN AGAIN, based on Colson's book by the same title.
Dates
- Created: 1961, 1975-1989, 1990, n.d.
Conditions Governing Access
All folders are closed to use for twenty years from the date of the youngest document in the folder except to those with written permission from the President or Chairman of the Board of Prison Fellowship.
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Biographical or Historical Information
Evangelical agency ministering to prisoners; founded in 1976 by presidential advisor and convict Charles Colson; major activities of the organization included preaching the Gospel to prisoners, providing nuture and fellowship for Christian prisoners, counseling prisoners families and lobbying to prison reform.
Extent
81.65 Cubic Feet
Other Descriptive Information
- Actresses -- United States.
- Actresses -- United States. -- Politics and government.
- Authors and publishers
- Authors and publishers -- United States.
- Belief and doubt.
- Born again (Motion picture)
- Born again.
- Capital punishment.
- Capra, Frank.
- Christian education
- Christian education -- United States.
- Christian education of adults.
- Christian leadership.
- Christian life.
- Christian literature
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution
- Christian literature -- Publication and distribution -- United States.
- Christianity Today, Inc.
- Christianity and politics.
- Christianity today.
- Church and social problems
- Church and social problems -- United States.
- Church and state
- Church and state -- United States.
- Church work with prisoners
- Church work with prisoners -- United States.
- Church work with women
- Church work with women -- United States.
- Colson, Charles W.
- Communication in organizations
- Communication in organizations -- United States.
- Conversion.
- Counseling.
- Crime
- Crime -- United States.
- Criminals
- Criminals -- Rehabilitation
- Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States.
- Criminals -- United States.
- Discrimination
- Discrimination -- United States.
- Evangelicalism
- Evangelicalism -- United States.
- Evangelistic work
- Evangelistic work -- Canada.
- Evangelistic work -- Michigan.
- Evangelistic work -- Montana.
- Evangelistic work -- New Mexico.
- Evangelistic work -- Tennessee.
- Evangelistic work -- United States.
- Evangelistic work -- Washington (D.C.)
- Evangelistic work -- Washington (State)
- Evangelistic work -- West Virginia.
- Faith.
- Falwell, Jerry.
- Fund raising
- Fund raising -- United States.
- Halfway houses
- Halfway houses -- United States.
- Hispanic Americans
- Hispanic Americans -- Religious life.
- Hughes, Harold E.
- Jones, Dean.
- Journalism, Religious
- Journalism, Religious -- United States.
- Jubilee.
- Legislators
- Legislators -- United States.
- Liddy, G. Gordon.
- Life sentence.
- Lobbying
- Lobbying -- United States.
- Loux, Gordon D.
- Mass media in religion
- Mass media in religion -- United States.
- Motion pictures in church work
- Motion pictures in church work -- United States.
- Nixon, Richard M.
- PTL (Organization)
- Perkins, John,
- Prayer groups
- Prayer groups -- United States.
- Prison Fellowship.
- Prison administration
- Prison administration -- United States.
- Prison chaplains
- Prison chaplains -- United States.
- Prison furloughs
- Prison furloughs -- United States.
- Prison reformers
- Prison reformers -- United States.
- Prison riots.
- Prisoners
- Prisoners -- United States.
- Prisons
- Prisons -- United States
- Prisons -- United States -- Officials and employees.
- Publishers and publishing
- Publishers and publishing -- United States.
- Racism
- Racism -- United States.
- Recidivism
- Recidivism -- United States.
- Religious institutions.
- Schaeffer, Francis A.
- Sex role.
- Social change.
- Van Ness, Daniel W.,
- Voluntarism
- Voluntarism -- Religious aspects
- Voluntarism -- Religious aspects -- United States.
- Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.
- Weyerhauser, C. Davis.
- Women
- Women -- Religious life.
- Worship (Christian)
- Title
- Collection 274 Records of Prison Fellowship Ministries
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Billy Graham Center Archives Repository