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Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking
budgets have increasingly welcomed "faith-based" providers offering
services at no cost to help meet the needs of inmates. Drawing from
three years of on-site research, this book utilizes survey analysis
along with life-history interviews of inmates and staff to explore
the history, purpose, and functioning of the Inmate Minister
program at Louisiana State Penitentiary (aka "Angola"), America's
largest maximum-security prison. This book takes seriously
attributions from inmates that faith is helpful for "surviving
prison" and explores the implications of religious programming for
an American corrections system in crisis, featuring high
recidivism, dehumanizing violence, and often draconian punishments.
A first-of-its-kind prototype in a quickly expanding policy arena,
Angola's unique Inmate Minister program deploys trained graduates
of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in bi-vocational
pastoral service roles throughout the prison. Inmates lead their
own congregations and serve in lay-ministry capacities in hospice,
cell block visitation, delivery of familial death notifications to
fellow inmates, "sidewalk counseling" and tier ministry,
officiating inmate funerals, and delivering "care packages" to
indigent prisoners. Life-history interviews uncover deep-level
change in self-identity corresponding with a growing body of
research on identity change and religiously motivated desistance.
The concluding chapter addresses concerns regarding the First
Amendment, the dysfunctional state of U.S. corrections, and
directions for future research.
Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking
budgets have increasingly welcomed "faith-based" providers offering
services at no cost to help meet the needs of inmates. Drawing from
three years of on-site research, this book utilizes survey analysis
along with life-history interviews of inmates and staff to explore
the history, purpose, and functioning of the Inmate Minister
program at Louisiana State Penitentiary (aka "Angola"), America's
largest maximum-security prison. This book takes seriously
attributions from inmates that faith is helpful for "surviving
prison" and explores the implications of religious programming for
an American corrections system in crisis, featuring high
recidivism, dehumanizing violence, and often draconian punishments.
A first-of-its-kind prototype in a quickly expanding policy arena,
Angola's unique Inmate Minister program deploys trained graduates
of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in bi-vocational
pastoral service roles throughout the prison. Inmates lead their
own congregations and serve in lay-ministry capacities in hospice,
cell block visitation, delivery of familial death notifications to
fellow inmates, "sidewalk counseling" and tier ministry,
officiating inmate funerals, and delivering "care packages" to
indigent prisoners. Life-history interviews uncover deep-level
change in self-identity corresponding with a growing body of
research on identity change and religiously motivated desistance.
The concluding chapter addresses concerns regarding the First
Amendment, the dysfunctional state of U.S. corrections, and
directions for future research.
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The Book of Lurch (Paperback)
Jocelyn Pihlaja; Illustrated by Byron Johnson; Virginia Larsen
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R249
Discovery Miles 2 490
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific
organization created in 1879, and is part of the U.S. government.
Their scientists explore our environment and ecosystems, to
determine the natural dangers we are facing. The agency has over
10,000 employees that collect, monitor, and analyze data so that
they have a better understanding of our problems. The USGS is
dedicated to provide reliable, investigated information to enhance
and protect our quality of life. This is one of their bulletins.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across
the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is--or at least can be--risky
business, hazardous to one's health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy,
the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: "As
their predecessors for over one hundred forty years before them
did, today's Texas Rangers continue to battle violence and
transnational criminals along the Texas-Mexico border."In "Riding
Lucifer's Line," Bob Alexander, in his characteristic storytelling
style, surveys the personal tragedies of twenty-five Texas Rangers
who made the ultimate sacrifice as they scouted and enforced laws
throughout borderland counties adjacent to the Rio Grande. The
timeframe commences in 1874 with formation of the Frontier
Battalion, which is when the Texas Rangers were actually
institutionalized as a law enforcing entity, and concludes with the
last known Texas Ranger death along the border in 1921. Alexander
also discusses the transition of the Rangers in two introductory
sections: "The Frontier Battalion Era, 1874-1901" and "The Ranger
Force Era, 1901-1935," wherein he follows Texas Rangers moving from
an epochal narrative of the Old West to more modern, technological
times.
Written absent a preprogrammed agenda, "Riding Lucifer's Line"
is legitimate history. Adhering to facts, the author is not
hesitant to challenge and shatter stale Texas Ranger mythology.
Likewise, Alexander confronts head-on many of those critical Texas
Ranger histories relying on innuendo and gossip and anecdotal
accounts, at the expense of sustainable evidence--writings often
plagued with a deficiency of rational thinking and common
sense.
"Riding Lucifer's Line" is illustrated with sixty remarkable
old-time photographs. Relying heavily on archived Texas Ranger
documents, the lively text is authenticated with more than one
thousand comprehensive endnotes.
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