Reclaiming Lives, Restoring Hope
Prisons and Poverty Conference Oct.1-2, 2013
CHAPLAIN CURTIS BROWDER
MINISTRIES
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Under Chaplain Browder’s direction CCBM conducts prison revivals every summer ministering to over 13,000 inmates in the prison system. The mission also sponsors monthly food distrubtions serving over 2,000 people. in Montgomery County, Chilton County and surrounding areas.
“Browder Ministries continue to have a positive effect in assisting with the culture change of the facility. The violence level is down and there is a certain peace and calm that has developed in the institution.” Grant Culliver, W.C. Holman Correctional Facility
"A Hungry name is a
dangerous man."- chap
One in every 75 adults in Alabama is behind bars, making the state’s incarceration rate sixth highest
in the nation. Just looking at the prison population, Alabama has the fourth highest imprisonment rate,
trailing only Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma.
But at over 190 percent of institutional capacity,
Alabama’s prisons are among the most crowded in the country and have the nation’s highest inmate to
prison staff ratio, with 9.3 inmates for each correctional
officer.
Large numbers of prison admissions for non-violent offenders Alabama’s corrections data reveal that low-level drug and property offenders are largely fueling growth of the state’s prison system.
Each year, approximately 70 percent of admissions to Alabama prisons are individuals convicted of drug or property offenses, and over half of all admissions are Class C (the lowest level) offenses.
10 Drug offenses account for about 37 percent of new admissions while property offenses make up about 33 percent.11 Those percentages have held relatively steady over the past several years.
CHAPLAIN CURTIS BROWDER
MINISTRIES provides prison revivals in 9 correctional facilities throughout the state of Alabama beginning in March ending in September of each year. CCBMprovide barbecue’s dinner that serves each inmate bbq chicken, with two sides and a roll. After each meal Chaplain Browder and his team ministers the word of God through biblical scriptures.
In 1978, Chaplain Browder (Chap), was appointed by Governor George C. Wallace as Alabama's First Black Prison Chaplain for the Alabama Department of Corrections. Chaplain Browder understands the need for after care facilities for ex-offenders and the importance of meeting the needs of the whole man. CCBM provides home plans, mentoring, counseling and jobs upon EOS or parole.
Today, Chaplain Browder obtained 14 trailers homes from FEMA that he is converting into housing for those in need. Some of the people he works with have been in prison or on the streets for a long time. ”
In 1975, Curtis Browder as a volunteer minister entered into a Prison in Cannon City, Colorado. From that day forward his life would not be the same , Chap continued to minister there until he returned to Alabama. As he entered the Alabama Department of Corrections as a volunteer Chaplain, Dr. Thomas Staton recommended Chap to the Board of Prisons to be a State Chaplain. The rest is history.
