new prettier blog space...although i am still trying at changing the template..

Hi friends,

Thanks for your comments on the other blog at wordpress which i probably won't be using anymore. This will be my proper one now.

Okay, so jail...I went to jail last Thursday. Ha ha. No, I really did.

I feel like out of nowhere, all these books about prison and jail kept appearing on my knee and I just had to keep reading them and I learnt more and more about the prison and jail population in the USA and how it's like they are North America's 'untouchable' caste. Prisoners have very few rights, have no power and are at the mercy of the system and whatever guards might be there to be 'caretakers'.
Yeah, they committed a crime and consequences need to be enforced but when you learn about the dysfunction of childhood that is a pretty constant theme in prisoners' lives, you can't help but think of a certain Grace that longs to start working in these precious people's lives.

The difference between jail and prison here in the US is that prison is where you spend your sentence if it's lengthy enough and jail is a place where you go if you are in a pretrial phase or if your sentence is really short - say 60-90 days - it's just easier to spend it in jail.

I contacted the County Jail and they have let me in on chapel services as the worship leader. It was my first week last week and it was great.

So that's that news. I will keep you updated.

Love Jane.