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From prisoner to activist shareholder

Last week Marian Wright Edelman chronicled the work of Strength to Love, a prisoner reentry program run by the Church of Christ-Right Now in Washington D.C. I visited the church's offices last year when I was writing a Century article on its pastoral training program. While I was there, a staff member turned around at his desk and asked church director Rebecca Stelle, "What if we bought stock in a prison?

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