About Us
Our Mission
To provide adults in custody with an accredited bachelor’s degree, transforming them into spiritual and moral leaders and impacting the prison population throughout California
with the value of Godly moral principles.
Our Vision

To change the culture of the California prison system by transforming adults in custody into spiritual and moral leaders
Our Core Values
Value of life
Dignity of the adult in custody
Respect for another regardless of ethnicity, beliefs, or background
Restoration of community
Reconciliation with victims
Forgiveness
Our Story
In the early 1990's, Angola Prison in Louisiana was considered among the most violent prisons in America. In 1995, the new Warden, Burl Cain, asked the New Orleans Baptist Seminary to plant a satellite campus right in the middle of that infamous prison. In 1999, they graduated their first class of students with a Bachelors Degree in Biblical Theology. A nearly immediate change in the prison's culture began to emerge. In a few short years, the inmate-on-inmate and the inmate-on-staff assaults were reduced by 75%, according to a study completed by Baylor University in Texas.
It is after this concept that Paid in Full California has been modeled. We are promoting a complete culture change in the California prison system by emphasizing the value of the Christian mindset and moral way of life.
We are in the final stages of student application processing and fully expect our first class of 25 students to begin in the fall of 2024, in Mule Creek Prison in Ione, Ca.
God has opened many doors for us in the California Department of Corrections that were tightly closed just a few years ago. We are very confidant that we will be on the road to helping make fundamentals changes in prison culture a reality.
Biblical Seminary in prison - A real success story
Our Long-term Goals
To Begin working to establish this same model in a prison in Southern California. We want to provide diversity in the educational programs so that inmates from all over the state will have choices in their seminary and academic goals.