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.

An engaging, enlightening, and cleverly illustrated guide to product design, written by experienced professional designers and instructors. Products are in every area of our lives, but just what product designers do and how they think is a mystery to most. Product design is not art, engineering, or craft, even as it calls for skills and understandings in each of these areas--along with psychology, history, cultural anthropology, physics, ergonomics, materials technology, marketing, and manufacturing. This accessible guide provides an entry point into this vast field through 101 brief, illustrated lessons exploring such areas as - why all design is performed in relation to the body - why every product is part of a system - the difference between being clever and being gimmicky - why notions of beauty are universal across cultures - how to use both storytelling and argument to effectively persuade Written by three experienced design instructors and professionals, 101 Things I Learned(R) in Product Design School provides concise, thoughtful touch points for beginning design students, experienced professionals, and anyone else wishing to better understand this complex field that shapes our lives every day.

Part memoir and part scientific study, Seeking a New World presents the life of Sung Jang Chung, a humble man dedicated to searching for truth in both the physical and spiritual realms.

Beginning with his middle school education in Korea, Sung Jang Chung shares how his early days forever shaped his beliefs. He studied Jeong Yeok, a Korean philosophy book written by Kim Hang, and began to meditate. As a young adult, he was imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II for his participation in an underground organization of Korea's independence movement. While in jail, Chung experienced his first precognitive dream. More dreams followed during his time in the Korean War.

These experiences led him to embark on a lifelong, unceasing study of science that included medicine, physics, astronomy, and parapsychology, as well as the major religions of the world. This culminated in Chung's quest to discover truth in religion and science, one that continues to this day. Chung deftly explores the relationship between the physical and spiritual worlds, and seeks to bring about a better understanding of both.

Wisdom permeates the pages of Seeking a New World as Sung Jang Chung shares his remarkable journey. Let his life be a beacon to those seeking truth.

Part memoir and part scientific study, Seeking a New World presents the life of Sung Jang Chung, a humble man dedicated to searching for truth in both the physical and spiritual realms.

Beginning with his middle school education in Korea, Sung Jang Chung shares how his early days forever shaped his beliefs. He studied Jeong Yeok, a Korean philosophy book written by Kim Hang, and began to meditate. As a young adult, he was imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II for his participation in an underground organization of Korea's independence movement. While in jail, Chung experienced his first precognitive dream. More dreams followed during his time in the Korean War.

These experiences led him to embark on a lifelong, unceasing study of science that included medicine, physics, astronomy, and parapsychology, as well as the major religions of the world. This culminated in Chung's quest to discover truth in religion and science, one that continues to this day. Chung deftly explores the relationship between the physical and spiritual worlds, and seeks to bring about a better understanding of both.

Wisdom permeates the pages of Seeking a New World as Sung Jang Chung shares his remarkable journey. Let his life be a beacon to those seeking truth.