Only Christ truly transforms inmates, says prison governor as she steps down
Emily Pollok
Coming to faith in Christ is the only thing that really transforms people in prison, says a Christian ex-jail governor.
Susie Richardson, Jersey’s prison governor for the past three years, stepped down from her post last month, closing the chapter on a 20-year career in the prison system.
From darkness and guns to God
Claud Jackson first held a gun in his hands at the age of six. Now, over 30 years later, he is working as a curate, studying for the ministry and preparing to return to the same London neighbourhoods – but this time with a Bible in his hands.
His story is one of poverty, abuse, drug dealing and violence – and of a life turned round by a loving God who refused to give up on him.