Prison Outreach
Going Back With Something Different
Eric “E.T.” Tafoya knows what it is to sit behind bars and wonder what is left of a life after everything has gone wrong.
Today, he returns to incarcerated men with the Catholic faith that became part of his own life on the inside — Scripture, prayer, testimony, honest conversation, and the reminder that a sentence does not place a person beyond the mercy of God.
Lived Experience
He Knows What It Feels Like to Be on the Other Side of the Door
Prison changes the way time moves. The noise eventually dies down, distractions run out, and a man is left with his own choices, consequences, regrets, and questions about what comes next.
Eric knows that place personally. His own return to the Catholic faith did not erase what happened, but it gave him somewhere to begin again. Prayer, the sacraments, and the Rosary became part of learning how to live differently after incarceration.
That is part of what he brings back into prison ministry now: not a polished success story, but an honest witness that consequences are real, mercy is real, and a different life is still possible.
Why We Go
The Church Does Not Forget the Imprisoned
Visiting the imprisoned is not an extra piece of Catholic life. It is one of the ways Christians are called to remain close to people who are suffering, isolated, and carrying the consequences of their choices.
That does not mean pretending those consequences are not real. It means refusing to believe that incarceration erases a person’s dignity or places anyone beyond repentance, forgiveness, and the mercy of God.
Hebrews 13:3
Get Involved
There Is a Place for Men Willing to Show Up
Prison ministry requires consistency, humility, and a willingness to listen. Not everyone serves in the same way, but there are several ways to stand behind the work.
Serve
Volunteer for Prison Outreach
If you are interested in serving with TUC7 prison outreach, let us know through the volunteer form and select Prison Outreach.
Volunteer Interest Form →Pray
Pray for the Men Inside
Pray for repentance, courage, healing, restored families, and the strength to build a different life when the door opens.
Connect
Help Open a Door
If you work with a correctional facility, chaplaincy, parish, reentry program, or ministry that may be a fit, we would like to hear from you.
Contact TUC7 →Redemption Is Real
No One Is Reduced to the Worst Thing They Have Done
Prison does not erase responsibility. It also does not erase dignity, the possibility of repentance, or the chance to live differently.
TUC7 goes back because men on the inside are still sons, fathers, brothers, and human beings made in the image of God. Some are ready to hear that. Some are not.
We go anyway.
“Remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are ill-treated as though you yourselves were suffering”
(Hebrews 13:3 )