About Charles Colson

As special council to President Richard Nixon during his term, Charles (Chuck) Colson garnered a lot of fame. This was particularly true during the Watergate scandal when he was investigated along with the rest of Nixon’s staff for attempting to sabotage the reelection. He was criticized by the Wall Street Journal during the investigation as “Nixon’s Hatchet Man” and was eventually convicted and sentenced to time in prison for conspiring in the Watergate Scandal.

Full ride ROTC scholarship to Brown university, American attorney with a degree from George Washington University, Top of his class in the U.S. Military, and Special Counsel to the President of the United States. This is who Colson WAS.

Yet, even before he was convicted, Colson was changing. He had everything, and yet he admitted in his autobiography, Born Again, he felt like he had nothing. As he left the court after his sentence, he was recorded saying “I have committed my life to Jesus Christ and I can work for him in prison as well as out.”

Colson has since founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, the world’s largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, crime victims, and their families.

Truly, it could be said that even when he was behind bars, he was more free than he had ever been.