Jail Ministry Mission

Jail Ministry operates as an advocate for the incarcerated through a variety of avenues. In addition to the Visitor-Advocacy Program, it performs social-justice work, helps facilitate Recovery Advocacy, offers a Poverty Bail Program and holds prayer meetings and Bible study.

Providing advocacy for people incarcerated in the Onondaga County Justice Center. The organization defines itself as "a grassroots, social justice, spirtually founded community collective organized to advocate on the behalf of the incarcerated; to promote peace-making within the community; and to advance the protection of human dignity within the community.

Bill Cuddy, founder of the Jail Ministry looks back on how the Jail Ministry came in to being and its mission to serve