The Memory Lingers On: How Unacknowledged Trauma for African Americans Helps Fuel America’s Prison System

As America explores what 400 years of African presence on this soil has meant, I’ve had the opportunity to base my reflections on a reverse journey of sorts earlier this year. But it was no [...]

by Jerry Blassingame & Allie Hargrove A person with a mental illness is more likely to be incarcerated than to receive medical help. We incarcerate about two million people a year who have [...]

by Jerry Blassingame, as published in The Root When President Donald Trump signed the recent First Step Act into law, many people considered it to be the most important criminal justice reform [...]

by Jerry Blassingame What if someone cut off your legs? Well, that would be challenging. It would be difficult to move in ways that you are accustomed to moving. We don’t realize how important [...]

Here at Soteria, we see the ways in which a criminal record can haunt returning citizens. There are significant implications that plague every returning citizen in our program. Before we consider [...]

Let’s start by defining these two words: Mass incarceration is a term used by historians and sociologists to describe the substantial increase in the number of incarcerated people in the United [...]

Soteria Community Development Corporation (CDC) is pleased to announce the new Returning Citizens Housing Initiative, a comprehensive re-entry Housing Initiative facilitated by the Soteria CDC [...]

Read about Pastor Jerry Blassingame’s success in advocating for ex-felons in a recent Greenville Online article. Read the full article here.      

South Carolina Senate Bill 900 is forcing lawmakers to take a closer look at expungement standards. Read the Full Article Here.

Pastor Jerry Blassingame explains the background and heart of Soteria’s ministry. Watch the Full Video Here.