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Words of hope that saved an inmate’s life

United States (MNN) —Hopelessness can lead to terrible choices in any person’s life. But for prison inmates, it carries a particular weight. Dee Peterson is the director of discipleship at Prisoners For Christ. She believes that some of the strongest emotions surrounding incarceration have to do with forgiveness: Some inmates feel there is none left for them. “When the human soul is feeling that they can never be different, they cannot be restored, that who they are at that moment, that that's i