White Collar Support Group To Hold Milestone 300th Meeting

Progressive Jail Ministries, Inc., the world’s first ministry dedicated to serving the white collar justice neighborhood, will maintain its three hundredth consecutive White Collar Assist Group assembly on-line on Zoom this Monday, March 14, 2022.

Co-founded by Connecticut resident/NYC white collar lawyer and ordained minister, Jeff Grant, Esq. (Jeffrey D. Grant), the ministry’s mission is to assist people prosecuted for white collar crimes to take duty for his or her actions and the wreckage they brought about, make amends, and transfer ahead in new lifestyle centered on hope, care, compassion, tolerance and empathy. The help group was based on-line in 2016 on-line as a manner of reaching out to justice-impacted people and households struggling in isolation all around the nation and offering them options in a supportive neighborhood.

Progressive Jail Ministries’ objective is to offer religious options and emotional help to those that are feeling alone, remoted, and hopeless. Its goal is to assist them discover a path to a wholesome, spirit-filled place on the opposite aspect of what could appear to be insurmountable issues.

“I’m so grateful for the chance to be of service to this vastly misunderstood and enormously under-supported neighborhood,” mentioned Jeff Grant. “After we held our first help group assembly in 2016, we had solely 4 contributors. Now, 6 years later, we’re holding our three hundredth assembly with over 450 members.”

“For years, Jeff Grant has made it his mission to be sure that nobody feels the isolation that may come from being a former inmate,” mentioned Invoice Baroni, former ‘Bridgegate’ defendant whose conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Courtroom.

Along with offering assets and neighborhood, Grant is the main advocate for guaranteeing white collar-related points are included inside the ever-evolving debate across the legal justice system. “After we began the ministry in 2013, individuals who had been to jail had been pariahs with little alternative to have a second probability,” mentioned Grant. “A decade later, legal justice reform is a vital nationwide dialog; we’re pleased with our work to allow white collar justice advocates to have a seat on the desk.”

Thus far, the neighborhood has been a featured supply surrounding white-collar associated points, together with a current profile of Grant and the White Collar Assist Group within the New Yorker. Grant’s work has additionally been featured in main nationwide media Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, Reuters,Forbes, and Greenwich Magazine in addition to main podcasts equivalent to The Rich Roll Podcast. Grant has additionally been a Primary Stage presenter at prestigious conferences equivalent to The Nantucket Mission. Along with being a preferred interviewee, Grant has helped hundreds of his neighborhood members navigate their previous and push in the direction of re-establishing themselves as productive contributors to society.

With each Legislation and Grasp of Divinity levels, Grant gives a singular perspective of understanding about what and the way his neighborhood members are dealing with and dealing with forward of them. Grant himself spent virtually 14 months in a Federal jail for a white collar crime he dedicated in 2001.

In accordance with former Philadelphia District Legal professional Seth Williams, who served time in a Federal jail, “Jeff created a community of welcoming, non-judgmental, and understanding women and men that share their related experiences in an open and nurturing setting.”

The weekly Monday assembly is held on-line on Zoom starting at 7 pm ET, 4 pm PT and lasts roughly 75 minutes. Through the assembly, members are given the possibility to replicate on their therapeutic course of in addition to embrace those that are new to the group, which continues to develop with every weekly gathering.

Complementing the weekly conferences embrace an ongoing weblog on Grant’s broadly regarded web site, prisonist.org, the place conferences are recapped, dissected and supplies are gathered for neighborhood members to proceed to work on their very own. Grant’s White Collar Week podcast has additionally turn out to be a crucial supply for his neighborhood, offering a platform for those who have gone by way of the journey to inform their story and supply private insights into their therapeutic. Friends have included present and former politicians, monetary executives, white collar legal protection attorneys, federal brokers, judges, Hollywood producers, and extra.

About Progressive Jail Ministries

Established in 2013 in Greenwich, CT, Progressive Jail Ministries is the world’s first ministry dedicated to serving the white collar justice neighborhood. Extra data is out there on its web site at www.prisonist.org and on its social media channels: Fb, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.