Jim's Quotes

"A little over two weeks after I got out of jail, I was given a second chance—and that opportunity changed my life."

—Jeremy Hayse

"Our criminal justice system is filled with people who need mental health and substance use care to prevent them from re-entering the system..."

--Debra A. Pinals, M.D. 

"My life was created with purpose and meaning. Today I am a new creation and I pledge my life to serve Jesus Christ…"

—Michael Tunstall, DOC #210343

"We are not your children's keepers. You are! Parents and guardians have got to step up, a kid is dead tonight."

--IMPD Chief Chris Bailey

"I'm privileged to have experienced incarceration."

—Jason Lee Bayles #A302843

"I believed a lot of the enemy's lies over the years, [I believed] that I would never amount to anything, I was a nobody and could never achieve anything…"

—Trish

"Sorry, but your password must contain at least 8 characters, a symbol or number, a hieroglyph, a haiku, a musical note, the feather of a hawk, and a drop of unicorn blood"

—Anonymous

"Anyone who has ever lived in poverty knows beyond a shadow of a doubt just how bad the curse of poverty really is."

—William Bumphus II, D.D.

"Don't you realize you're violating our privileges here? When we're asked to leave, we leave!"

—Charles Coleson

"I remember the sinking feeling when the mail cart would pass my cell. The squeak of the wheels passing reminded me that I did not matter to a single person outside that concrete box."

—Anonymous