Jon Ponder: Hope for Prisoners (Pt 1)
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
After 26 years of crime, Jon ironically found hope in prison and committed his life to helping other returning citizens live at levels that they had never dreamed about. His Hope for Prisoners has had over 4,700 clients and boasts a recidivism rate of only 8%, which is over 8 times better than the national average. Most extraordinary is that they've recruited 135 Las Vegas law enforcement officers to mentor returning citizens, which has never been done at this scale before.
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| 0:00.0 | And I said, well, why do you want to name it home for prisons? This is what I said to him, |
| 0:11.0 | was that the number one reason why I'm naming it over |
| 0:13.6 | prisons is God told me to a period right? |
| 0:16.2 | What number said right? |
| 0:17.2 | Got it. And I said the other reason why I'm naming it |
| 0:19.8 | all for prisons is because the mission of our organization is to help to create a massive |
| 0:26.3 | amount of people who come home from the prison system and not only do they never re-offend again, that they begin to live levels of life to most people |
| 0:37.6 | on the dream of. |
| 0:38.7 | When we do that, then they become the hope for the prisoners. |
| 0:45.0 | That's a beautiful thing, brother. |
| 0:49.2 | Welcome to an army of normal folks. |
| 0:51.0 | I'm Bill Courtney. I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband, I'm a father, I'm an |
| 0:56.2 | entrepreneur, and I'm a football coach in Intercity Memphis and the last part |
| 1:00.6 | unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our football team. |
| 1:04.5 | It's called Undefeded. |
| 1:06.3 | I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of fancy people in |
| 1:11.6 | nice suits talking big words that nobody understands on CNN and Fox. |
| 1:16.8 | Rather an army of normal folks, us, you and me just deciding, hey, I can help. |
| 1:22.9 | That's what John Ponder, the voice we just heard is done. |
| 1:26.3 | A former prisoner himself, John led a life of crime for 26 years, |
| 1:32.0 | until finally he found his own hope oddly inside a federal penitentiary. |
| 1:37.0 | It's an incredible story that we're about to share with you. |
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