Soon I will be leaving to speak to 30 women or more at the women’s correctional facility in Lynwood. I don't ask them why they are there, but sometimes they want to talk about it. There are so many laws on the books. This country has 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world's prisoners. Most of these women are locked up for prostitution and drug use, and I won't go into the wrongfulness and uselessness behind this, in my mind it is implied. There are women that are locked up for threatening or acting in a violent manner against the men in their lives, and in many cases it is a crime that these woman are the one's suffering for their men's behavior. When I ask them if they would be in their predicament if drugs and alcohol were not an issue, very few of them would respond in an affirmative manner; that is why I go to them, to help show them a way out. Sin is not an act against God, it is an act against ourselves and our human family. I remind them that they may not be wrong, but they may be suffering, and that they can't get out of their prison alone. It takes an act of courage; it takes an act of love, to ask for help, I can't make them want to recover and transform their lives. It also takes acts of courage and love to offer help; that is something that each of us can to, to transform our own lives, while helping others.
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