Justice By Objectives in Desert News

Deseret News recently featured Justice By Objectives in an article about the work we are doing and the impact we’re creating. Check out the excerpt below, and click here for the full story.

Some people selflessly use the cards they’ve been dealt in life to make the game easier for the person next to them. For Channae Haller, her mission to help the downtrodden came to her while she was sitting in a Utah jail.

“I was trying not to lose my mind, you know, and so that’s why I took out different opportunities and I started being nice to people and less in my head,” she said, starting with her cellmate, a woman who never learned to read and had apparently been so mistreated by her biological mother and then adopted mother that she had a permanent soft spot on her skull from abuse as a child.

“So I started reading to her and helped her find her purpose,“ which started to give Haller purpose, she told the Deseret News. ”I worked out a lot. I did a lot of yoga in there, and wrote a lot.”