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CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Grace House Ministry
1812 W. Adams
Chicago, IL 60612
312-733-5363
 Homeboy Industries
Assists at-risk and formerly gang-involved youth to become positive and contributing members of society through job placement, training and education.
www.homeboy-industries.org
 Kolbe House
An agency of the Archdiocese of Chicago that serves those involved in the criminal justice system. Their ministry includes one-to-one visits, pastoral counseling, celebrating Mass, religious services and outreach through other social services. They listen to and stand with family members, provide emergency services to the incarcerated, their families and other families in similar situations. Every month, the parish St. Vincent DePaul Society collects items to donate to Kolbe House. A list of items needed for these care packages is posted in St. Francis Xavier vestibule.
www.kolbehouseministry.org
Prison Fellowship International
 To exhort and serve the Body of Christ in prisons and in the community in its ministry to prisoners, ex-prisoners, victims and their families; and in its advancement of biblical standards of justice in the criminal justice system.
The world's largest and most extensive criminal justice ministry, Prison Fellowship International (PFI) is a global association of over 100 national Prison Fellowship organizations.
PFI is active in every region of the world with a network of more than 100,000 volunteers worldwide working for the spiritual, moral, social and physical well-being of prisoners, ex-prisoners, their families and victims of crime.
Did you know:
Almost 2/3 of women in the developing world work in vulnerable jobs such as self-employed persons or as unpaid family workers? In southern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, this type of work accounts for more than 80% of all jobs for women.
Source; UN Millennium Goals
Globally women earn 73% of men's average wages. In the US, they earn 78%. This gap costs the average full time woman worker in the US between $700,000 to $2,000,000 over the course of her life.
Source: JustFaith Ministries
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For more information, click here http://www.pfi.org/
 Restore Justice
www.Restorejustice.com
 St. Leonard Ministries
2100 W. Warren Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60612
312-738-1417
slministries.org
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