Correctional Institutions Chaplaincy

08/07/2026

As I reflect on this past year, my heart is filled with gratitude. Behind every number is a real person—a life touched through compassion, hope, and faithful presence.

Over the past year, we have responded to 18,120 requests from incarcerated people of all faiths, provided 15,930 one-on-one pastoral counseling visits, led 3,277 group classes with 30,492 participants, and answered 730 urgent requests including crisis response, su***de intervention, death notifications, pages from facilities, and connecting individuals with faith leaders.

These numbers represent your faithfulness - whether you minister inside the facilities, support our volunteers and staff behind the scenes, pray faithfully, or give generously, you are an important part of this ministry.

03/13/2026

12/02/2025

This consider supporting our work inside jails and youth detention centers: this time of year is especially challenging for the incarcerated and your support means we can keep being present. Much love and gratitude to you

CIC Ministries Giving Tuesday Email Your gift lays the foundation for hope Inside our county jails, life can feel like shifting sand—unstable, isolated, uncertain. CIC Ministries shows up with steady

12/24/2024

We partnered with multiple groups in the jail to make this happen! Such a blessing

https://www.facebook.com/100064333823774/posts/997444595743325/?mibextid=CDWPTG

05/14/2024

A great collaboration with custody, reentry and programs. Blessing to see the women and their families blessed...

11/28/2023

"I greet everyone with peace..."

This Giving Tuesday, please consider supporting CIC Ministries!   Whether you are incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, or you have never been incarcerated, we are all searching for peace. This Giving

11/27/2023

Visit our CIC Christmas tree decorated by people from our jails. Our tree is on the edge on Market St, near the "sweet shop" kids display. So grateful to give those incarcerated a "voice" in this community event
https://www.cicministries.org/give-now

10/07/2023

Thanks to all at Compassion Week event in Mountain View for making 150 "relaxation packs" for inmates in mental health units! And thanks to Los Altos and Mountain View police department for participating too!

09/16/2023

Happy New Year, shanah tovah, to our Jewish friends celebrating Rosh Hashanah

08/09/2023

What is it like to be sentenced to die in prison?

The Visiting Room Documents the Stories of People Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole 08.07.23 New York Times Opinion Over 55,000 people in the U.S. are currently sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Thousands of those people are incarcerated at Angola Prison in L...