December 15, 2015

To all my viewers,

I want to wish you all happy holidays and Happy New Year. I get joy hearing from everybody.

I need you all's help more than ever. I have a PED on August 1, 2017. This year, I am preparing myself for society. Picking out housing and car. I will be moving to Buckhead Atlanta, GA. So I am trying to build a support system because I need a strong support system there.

I am originally from Bainbridge, GA. But my dad won custody when I was 13 years old, so I moved to New Jersey. So I used to New Jersey, New York, and Philly. My dad wants me to come back home. I want to try somewhere new. When I caught this charge in Georgia, I had only been back in Georgia for almost three years.

So I am really searching for loyal friends in this area. If you know any good people in this area, tell them to either email me at www.jpay.com or blog me. Thank you for your help.

Jennifer Johnson

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To Anyone Who Comes Into An Institution to Minister

So many people called inmates profess to have found Jesus while they were locked up: Jail House Religion. Some inmates really do change, never to return to the system. However, you have the repeated offenders who jump all over the place of worship. Worshiping God while being locked up but return to their old habits once released.

What's going on with this? How can you help those offenders want to change? Let me tell you what goes on when the church folks leave. We, the inmates, know they haven't change. Just hiding behind the Bible. There are so many religious spirits in the prison.

I had this friend girl I knew from my county. She kept coming to jail and prison. Every time she was giving testimonies and running around the church worshiping. Nothing wrong with that if you're sincere. This last time she came to prison, they put her in RSAP, which is a drug addiction program. I told her, "If you don't want to come back into this system, you got to face yourself head on. Stop using religion as a crutch and ritual." I said, "You have to have a balanced life." She went to the services but she didn't run to church every time the door opened. She stopped carrying the Bible all the time and quoting the Scripture. This girl couldn't even have a decent conversation without quoting a Scripture. She put her all into the program. She got what she put in. This individual has not returned to prison. She had been between jail and prison fourteen times.

A lot of people that come into minister tells us a lot of things. We need to be our word. We need the Lord. We need the worship and praise. But when a person is reading their word all day or listening to church music all day, that's not a balanced life. They can't have a normal conversation without being religious.

I am a Christian myself. I need my Bible and meditation. I listen to worship music. But that's not all I do. I watch TV, socialize with other people without being religious. I love to write and just have fun. I have some R&B, rap, ragge, jazz, and country on my JPS. I also set a few minutes of the day in a quiet place to think. What do I need working on? Who can I be kind to today? There has to be a balance.

Then you have the religious bunch that don't go to worship service, but they do all these Bible studies all day. They can tell you what you ought to do but they never change. Although they're in their word all day long. This is where that jail house religion comes in and repeat offenders. Ritual and radical will harm anyone who hides behind something as a crutch.

Balance is important in anyone's life. That's what the inmates need to be taught in the year of 2016. The goal is to lower the risk of the inmates coming back to prison, as well as their soul. Georgia penal system needs to decrease not increase. May be this will help others to help inmates better.

Jennifer Johnson