ABOUT JERICHO CIRCLE

MISSION

We create safer, healthier prisons and communities by facilitating transformational journeys of healing, homecoming, and service for incarcerated individuals and returning citizens.

VISION

Our vision is to create safer, healthier prisons and communities. We aspire to:

  • Reduce violence, victimization, incarceration, and recidivism

  • Heal and transform intergenerational pain

  • Promote restorative justice instead of punishment, shame, and isolation

  • Cultivate trust, love, and healing within and beyond prison walls

  • Support incarcerated individuals and returning citizens in realizing their potential

  • Create a diverse, authentic community that transcends and mends social divides

CORE VALUES

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

SELF-DISCOVERY

COMMUNITY

LEADERSHIP TEAM

  • Randy Wessel

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

  • Larry Cotton

    MCI-NORFOLK PROGRAM COORDINATOR

  • Louise DeIasi

    MCI-FRAMINGHAM PROGRAM COORDINATOR

  • Jonathan Purinton

    MAINE STATE PRISON PROGRAM COORDINATOR

  • Vern Ludwig

    EXPANSION COORDINATOR

  • Connor Yakaitis

    Connor Yakaitis

    GRANTS COORDINATOR

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Louise DeIasi

    BOARD CHAIR

  • Aaron Burris

    BOARD MEMBER (INSIDE CIRCLE)

  • Larry Cotton

    BOARD MEMBER

  • Sean Ellis

    BOARD MEMBER (NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT)

  • Vern Ludwig

    VICE PRESIDENT

  • Steve Spitzer

    FOUNDER AND CHIEF INSPIRATION OFFICER