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Name: John Warrener on Aug 23, 2008Comments: Chaplains help reduce the budget by reducing recidivism and placing homeless inmates in Christian rehabilitation programs.Flag
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Name: Andrea Shelton on Aug 27, 2008Comments: Inmates need pastors too! Support prison chaplains.Flag
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Name: Sidonie Hall on Aug 27, 2008Comments: We took the Bible out of the school and weapons (guns) walked in and students became tragic vitims. We took the Bible out of the court house and again guns walked in and judge and other staff became victims. Are we going "shut-up" and allow that to happen in our prison system also. This time their will be countless lifes that will be lost and more families mourning.Flag
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Name: Jan Spencer on Aug 27, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Aug 27, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Dessa & Michael Morris on Aug 27, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Harry Leverett on Aug 27, 2008Comments: I know from work in the Prison things would work without the Chaplains.Flag
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Name: Rose M. Allen on Aug 27, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Marcel W. Sparks on Aug 27, 2008Comments: The Prison Chaplain makes a big difference in the prisoners lives, and I believe it would be a mistake to remove them. I give my thanks to those chaplains who are there because they care.Flag
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Name: Rodney Foster on Aug 28, 2008Comments: I feel that faith is a big thing in ones life and can make or break a person, Please rethink this one.Flag
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Name: Beverly Pelka on Aug 28, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Sandy Mills on Aug 28, 2008Comments: If you take hope out of a hopeless place you will have no rehabilitation!Flag
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Name: Russell Bennett on Aug 28, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: James Johnson on Aug 28, 2008Comments: The chaplians in prison are doing a GOOD job, so you don't need to to keep these job.Flag
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Name: Robert Joiner on Aug 28, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Bernard Hill on Aug 28, 2008Comments: I agree with the petition to keep state Chaplains.Flag
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Name: David Phelps on Aug 28, 2008Comments: I do a lot of Christian Volunteer work at Dooly SP and Milan SP. I certainly agree that the prison chaplains are desperately needed.Flag
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Name: Nancy Linton on Aug 28, 2008Comments: Do not take Gods word out of the prisions.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Aug 28, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Pastor Donna Hubbard on Aug 28, 2008Comments: How do those who have lost their way find their way home How do those who have lost hope find someone and something to believe in How does a system that is overcome, overburdened and overwhelmed find a person who is willing The answer to all these questions is found in looking at chaplains and the unselfish work they do. This is the one position whose job description includes taking the issues of others home with you, and not only home with you but to your heart and on your knees. To eliminate this position would take the heart out of corrections.Flag
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Name: Rev.curtis Williams on Aug 28, 2008Comments: As a regular volunteer, i feel to eliminate the chaplins, would be disastraus and devistating to the many inmates that depends on them for many needs, spiritually, mentally and physically. We pray for full reistatement.Flag
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Name: Deborah Joiner on Aug 28, 2008Comments: As a Chaplain Volunteer I see the need for a chaplain and I also see all the good he does for the prisoners and staff alike. We need to remember what happened when we took God out of our schools. Eliminating the chaplains would be a step in the wrong direction.Flag
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Name: MaryAnn Hutchinson on Aug 28, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: John Williams on Aug 28, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Pastor Diane McDowell on Aug 29, 2008Comments: I have served as a prison volunteer/minister for over ten years....working in two male facilities. Chaplains are key and the work they do must continue! The volunteers can go in and serve, but we need to be accountable to a chaplain.....and under their leadership. Chaplains represent God in the prison system. Of all places, prisons do not need to lose the support, encouragement, counseling, compassion, wisdom of the chaplains. I believe they help to maintain order, provide the volunteers with much needed help, act as role models, and serve not only the inmate population, but the staff. PLEASE, if anything should occur in regard to the Chaplain Departments, they should be given more hours and more should be hired!!!!! They truly make a difference.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Aug 29, 2008Comments: My step-father and mother are volunteers at the prison. I hear first hand what a difference it makes. I Support Georgia Prison Chaplains!Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Aug 29, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Janice Highsmith on Aug 29, 2008Comments: If you take God and the Pastors that teach these men and women out of Prisons,you will have a much greater kaos problem,that will call for hiring of people to watch them.So you will be spending alot more money to pay them,than to have a Pastor.And some learn from this that there is a better way of life for them when they get out. Less people coming back in the system. Please I ask you, do not let our Pastors go. It could be your son or daughter in prison. I would want them to have a Pastor there for them. Thank You, Janice HifgsmithFlag
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Name: Barbara Linton on Aug 29, 2008Comments: I think it is horrible that you would even consider doing this. My brother-in-law works for a prison and he has told us horror stories about drugs and alcohol made in prison. The prisoners are treated like they are on a fab. vacation and no rehab is offered to them Why are you taking the last form of rehab from these prisoners. Pretty soon there will be more people in prison than on the street. Free meals, cable, internet, medical and they can continue their criminal activities without interference. At last with the chaplains in place there is a chance that some of this behavour can be deterred and maybe some of them can find the guts to act like people and not like animals....Flag
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Name: John Eldridge on Aug 29, 2008Comments: Chaplains are the people that keep the right balance within a prison. They are an asset to the staff as well as the inmates. They build relationships that one cannot put a price tag on.Flag
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Name: Johnny Weaver on Aug 29, 2008Comments: This program is very important for the department of corrections. Taking this away will only cause problems for all staff and officers.Flag
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Name: Chrisi Wardlaw on Aug 29, 2008Comments: I have been to some services at the Walker State Prison and Hays State Prison, the chaplains fill a need in these men's lives. At Walker, the men seem to really respect Pastor Eldridge, he can influence them in a way nobody else can right now. The chaplain at Hays is very new, but I believe that he really has a desire to see these men change their lives. I understand the main reason for someone to be incarcerated is to punish them for what they have done. The point is not just to lock them away and forget about them, many will be on the streets again one day. If you knew a former prison inmate would be your new neighbor, would you be more comfortable with someone who had the guidance of a chaplain during their time or someone that didn't. Who has the better chance to make a good neighbor These chaplains do the job the other employees don't have the time to do, they build a relationship unlike any most inmates have ever experienced in their lives. Let's give them a better chance being rehabilitated instead of just stored away.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Aug 29, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Kathy Ruiz on Aug 29, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Lisa M. Timmons on Aug 29, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Sheri Hilton on Aug 29, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Kelly Reynolds on Aug 29, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Aug 29, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Randall Gearhart on Aug 30, 2008Comments: Eliminating chaplains would have very serious consequnces to our state, society, and to positive reform of our state's prisoners. I beg you to reconsider any proposed cuts. Thanks you!Flag
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Name: Mildred Payne on Aug 30, 2008Comments: elminating the Chaplins is like closeing the only window of hope and possibility of restoration for these persons. I urge you not to do this.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Aug 30, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Debra Gearhart on Aug 30, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Paul Dixon on Aug 30, 2008Comments: Don't let the Department of Corrections eliminate the chaplins. I have been doing volunteer prison ministry for over 10 years and I know they are really needed in those facilities.Flag
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Name: Morris Lewark on Aug 30, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Aug 30, 2008Comments: I support prision's chaplains and the work they do for the prision population.Flag
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Name: Peggy Lieurance on Aug 31, 2008Comments: Working with the inmates around the State, I feel the Chaplains play an invaluable part in the well being of inmates and therefore the well being of the facilities.Flag
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Name: Laura B. Layfield on Sep 1, 2008Comments: Not only do our inmates need Chaplains, unfortunately, the staff as well need the Chaplains more than ever. Satan has a strong hold on the staff as much as he does onthe inmates. The Chaplains are the MOST IMPORTANT staff member GDC has.Flag
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Name: Lea Brannen on Sep 1, 2008Comments: I work in the prison system and I believe it would be detrimental to cut this position. We do have prisoners who actually find the Lord in prison and are sincere in their beliefs.Flag
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Name: Margie Sewell on Sep 1, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Joyce Giles on Sep 2, 2008Comments: I feel that chaplains for prisoners are very important. Please do not do anything to interfere with them.Flag