“You Visited Me”

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Doing time with United Prison Ministries International

On a sweltering day in late August a U-Haul truck is winding its way from Verbena, Alabama, to the bustling metropolis of New York City. The journey will end at the gates of the Rikers Island correctional facility, the 413-acre island in the East River that sits between Queens and the Bronx and forms the state’s main prison system. More than 28,800 books sit in boxes in the cargo box of the U-Haul, two for every inmate housed in the 10 prisons on the island.

http://www.adventistreview.org/1503-24