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The Restorative Prison
Essays on Inmate Peer Ministry and Prosocial Corrections
Authors: Johnson Byron R., Hallett Michael, Jang Sung Joon
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Keywords
Inmate Minister; Desistance; TDCJ; Christianity; Religious Volunteers; Identity transformation; Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; Reentry; Maximum Security Prison; Religion; NOBTS; Prison; Religious Congregations; Felons; Good Lives Model; Offender desistance; Positive Criminology; Redemption; Correctional Facilities; Religious conversion; Crime Desistance; Prison ministry; Spirituality; Good Life; Faith-based; Recidivism Reduction; Religiosity; Inmate Peer; RNR Model; PVS; Seminary Grads; Painful Prison; Peer Mentors; Baptist Theological Seminary; Positive Criminology Approach; Religious Services; Bible College Students; Antisocial Behavior
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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.
1. The Consequences of Failing Prisons; 2. Can Prisons Model Virtuous Behavior?; 3. How Religion Contributes to Volunteerism, Prosocial Behavior, and Positive Criminology; 4. The Disruptive Potential of Offender-led Programs: "Lived Experience" and Inmate Ministry; 5. Offender-Led Religious Movements and Rethinking Incarceration; 6. Wounded Healers in "Failed State" Prisons: A Case Study of Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman; 7. Lessons We Can Learn from Prisoners; 8. Toward Restorative Corrections: A Movement Well Underway; 9. Epilogue
Byron Johnson is Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences at Baylor University.
Michael Hallett is a Professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of North Florida.
Sung Joon Jang is Research Professor of Criminology at Baylor University.