Meet Chaplain Dewey Williams

"Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body."
— Hebrews 13:3

Chaplain Dewey Williams

Dewey Williams is the new Chaplain at Orange Correctional Center. In 2017, Dewey’s sermon series Joy On Death Row won top award at Yale Divinity School. He is a graduate Duke University Divinity School with a Master of Divinity and holds a Doctor of Ministry from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University where he focused his study on prison ministry reform.  Dewey is the author of the book Finding Joy On Death Row: Unexpected Lessons from Lives We Discarded which was released in February 2023.  His book won the Silver Award in the category of Inspiration from the Independent Book Publishers Association.  He has been doing prison ministry for the past seventeen years.

“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the Lord has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,”

— Isaiah 61:1