More Than Half Way Home: A Story of Accompaniment in the Shadows of Incarceration

When Dustin Feddon began accompanying men on death row and in solitary confinement, he saw a broken system that failed man after man within its walls. Even for those in ＂release＂ programs, what he saw--and the men he met--compelled him to ask if there could be new kinds of spaces, not confined spaces or ＂halfway houses,＂ but communities that welcomed people back into the human family, re-affirming their dignity? The answer he discovered, was a resounding Yes. That yes began a new community--and the story of Joseph House.

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Dustin Feddon is the Founder and Executive Director of Joseph House, a home and community for men released from prison, located in Tallahassee, Florida. An ordained Catholic priest in the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee, he began accompanying men on death row and in solitary confinement in 2013, while still attending seminary. His witnessing the trauma and abuse experienced in prison, and lack of assistance on release, resulted in his founding Joseph House in 2018. Fr. Dustin and Joseph House have partnered with Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), Legal Defense Fund, and other groups fighting for greater justice and mercy for those impacted by the criminal justice system.