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Do Faith-Based Prisons Work?
Loaded on July 10, 2014
by Alexander Volokh
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2014, page 50
Filed under:
Religious Discrimination,
Statistics/Trends,
Required Religious Programming.
Location:
United States of America.
Do Faith-Based Prisons Work?
by Alexander Volokh
There are a lot of faith-based prison programs out there. As of 2005, 19 states and the federal government had some sort of residential faith-based program, aimed at rehabilitating participating prisoners by teaching them subjects like “ethical decision-making, anger management, …
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