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Director Winston Moore honors Bishop Louis FordBishop Louis H. Ford,who resides in Chatham, will be honored in a special TRIBUTE by Winston E. Moore, Director of the Cook County Department of Corrections, for hisdedication to a ministry of prison work.The TRIBUTE will be given on Friday, March 29, 1974, at 9:30 P M.,.at the St. Paul Church of God In Christ, located at 4526 South Wabash Avenue.The Most Reverend Ford is assistant to the Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ, International. His duties in that position require constant travel throughout the United States. While on Church Business, he also takes the opportunity to visit inmates and administrators of the penal institutions in many of the cities,He is an active and con cerned member of the Board of Directors at the Cook County Department of Corrections and is wholeheatedly involved in PROGRAMMED AC-TJVITIES FOR CORRECTIONAL EDUCATIONlltaliopL.ll. Ford(PAGE).Bishop Ford is quite out spoken on his feelings about black on black crime, as well as crime in general. His philosophy is, “The causes of crime in streets have been explored from an environmental and psychological point of view, but answers are not found in exploration only. We must i*jMgenlly work to ridour communities of crime. We must strike at its causes: ignorance, and hopelessness and the culture which milt;kes criminal behavior an attractive thing to do”. !Bishop Ford said, “there is a need for all the efforts of every organized minority movement in the are^s ofemployment, housing, minority business ventures,etc., but without a con sistent decrease in our rising crime rates in the black community, their efforts are destined for failure.”Finally, he says, “When a man does something wrong, something harmful to the community, he must be disciplined The fact ofdetention itself is punishment enough While our corrections system has. this man, it has an opportQnity to change his life. To help in that work is my goal.”Bishop Ford, also serves as Presiding Bishop of the First Jurisdiction of Illinois and as pastor of the St. Paul Church of God in Christ \
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Park Forest South End Review
Park Forest, Illinois, US
Thu, Mar 28, 1974
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