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- Title: Changing the Lives of Prisoners: A New Agenda.
- Author : The Humanist
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 320 KB
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TODAY MORE THAN TWO MILLION people are incarcerated in state and federal prisons, 600,000 are released every year, and within three to rive years 50 to 60 percent return to prison for committing new crimes or for violating their conditional releases. This deplorable rate of recidivism results in many thousands of new crime victims, the public response to which could lead to another era of billions spent on new prisons. In an ostensible effort to turn this situation around--to promote rehabilitation of inmates and reduction in recidivism--special faith-based prisons have sprung up over the past few years in California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and other states. And the Corrections Corporation of America, which privately runs prisons for governments, has also jumped on the religious bandwagon. Funding for these programs, however, comes from state revenues distributed directly or indirectly to sectarian religious organizations. Because of this, such efforts engender obvious church-state entanglements. But there are problems with program effectiveness as well.