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Drawing on work from inside some of America's largest and toughest
prisons, this book documents an alternative model of "restorative
corrections" utilizing the lived experience of successful inmates,
fast disrupting traditional models of correctional programming.
While research documents a strong desire among those serving time
in prison to redeem themselves, inmates often confront a profound
lack of opportunity for achieving redemption. In a system that has
become obsessively and dysfunctionally punitive, often fewer than
10% of prisoners receive any programming. Incarcerated citizens
emerge from prisons in the United States to reoffend at profoundly
high rates, with the majority of released prisoners ending up back
in prison within five years. In this book, the authors describe a
transformative agenda for incentivizing and rewarding good behavior
inside prisons, rapidly proving to be a disruptive alternative to
mainstream corrections and offering hope for a positive future. The
authors' expertise on the impact of faith-based programs on
recidivism reduction and prisoner reentry allows them to delve into
the principles behind inmate-led religious services and other
prosocial programs-to show how those incarcerated may come to
consider their existence as meaningful despite their criminal past
and current incarceration. Religious practice is shown to
facilitate the kind of transformational "identity work" that leads
to desistance that involves a change in worldview and self-concept,
and which may lead a prisoner to see and interpret reality in a
fundamentally different way. With participation in religion
protected by the U.S. Constitution, these model programs are
helping prison administrators weather financial challenges while
also helping make prisons less punitive, more transparent, and
emotionally restorative. This book is essential reading for
scholars of corrections, offender reentry, community corrections,
and religion and crime, as well as professionals and volunteers
involved in correctional counseling and prison ministry.
Drawing on work from inside some of America's largest and toughest
prisons, this book documents an alternative model of "restorative
corrections" utilizing the lived experience of successful inmates,
fast disrupting traditional models of correctional programming.
While research documents a strong desire among those serving time
in prison to redeem themselves, inmates often confront a profound
lack of opportunity for achieving redemption. In a system that has
become obsessively and dysfunctionally punitive, often fewer than
10% of prisoners receive any programming. Incarcerated citizens
emerge from prisons in the United States to reoffend at profoundly
high rates, with the majority of released prisoners ending up back
in prison within five years. In this book, the authors describe a
transformative agenda for incentivizing and rewarding good behavior
inside prisons, rapidly proving to be a disruptive alternative to
mainstream corrections and offering hope for a positive future. The
authors' expertise on the impact of faith-based programs on
recidivism reduction and prisoner reentry allows them to delve into
the principles behind inmate-led religious services and other
prosocial programs-to show how those incarcerated may come to
consider their existence as meaningful despite their criminal past
and current incarceration. Religious practice is shown to
facilitate the kind of transformational "identity work" that leads
to desistance that involves a change in worldview and self-concept,
and which may lead a prisoner to see and interpret reality in a
fundamentally different way. With participation in religion
protected by the U.S. Constitution, these model programs are
helping prison administrators weather financial challenges while
also helping make prisons less punitive, more transparent, and
emotionally restorative. This book is essential reading for
scholars of corrections, offender reentry, community corrections,
and religion and crime, as well as professionals and volunteers
involved in correctional counseling and prison ministry.
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