The Angola Prison Seminary: Effects of Faith-Based Ministry on Identity Transformation, Desistance, and...

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Michael Hallett (University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA) Joshua Hays (Baylor University)

The Angola Prison Seminary

Effects of Faith-Based Ministry on Identity Transformation, Desistance, and Rehabilitation

Michael Hallett (University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA), Joshua Hays (Baylor University), Byron Johnson (Baylor University) , Sung Jang (Baylor University)

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Routledge
09 August 2016

Counselling & advice services; Penology & punishment; Rehabilitation of offenders

Series: Innovations in Corrections

"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."

By: Michael Hallett (University of North Florida Jacksonville FL USA), Joshua Hays (Baylor University), Byron Johnson (Baylor University), Sung Jang (Baylor University), Grant Duwe
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9781138124264
ISBN 10: 1138124265
Series: Innovations in Corrections
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 09 August 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Hallett is a Professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of North Florida. His work has appeared in numerous books and journals including Punishment & Society, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Contemporary Justice Review, Critical Criminology and others. In 2006, Dr. Hallett received the Gandhi, King Ikeda Award from Morehouse College for his book Private Prisons in America: A Critical Race Perspective (University of Illinois Press). Dr. Hallett received the Outstanding Graduate Alumnus Award from his doctoral alma mater, Arizona State University, in 2007. He currently also serves as a Senior Research Fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion. Dr. Hallett has been principal investigator on grants from the US Department of Justice, Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Jesse Ball DuPont Foundation and several other organizations.

Reviews for The Angola Prison Seminary: Effects of Faith-Based Ministry on Identity Transformation, Desistance, and Rehabilitation

Absolutely do not read this book if you want easy confirmation of what you already 'know' about religion in prison. This powerful, evocative study will disrupt any simple narratives and make you reassess your understanding of the world of the prison -- a bit like the work that the inmate ministers in Angola have done for fellow prisoners, prison staff, and the wider community for the past few decades. This book does true justice to their amazing stories and so should be widely read and shared. -Shadd Maruna, Ph.D., Dean, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice This is an outstanding and vivid study of identity transformation and the search for meaning among prisoners serving life and near-life sentences in America's largest maximum-security prison, in a state with the highest imprisonment rate. Through the development and support of an inmate ministry, a whole prison is morally rehabilitated, in so far as this is possible in the context outlined. The book is meticulously researched and powerfully as well as critically written. Its messages are resoundingly clear. I will be recommending it to students of the prison, colleagues, and especially to prison governors. -Dr. Alison Liebling, Director, Prisons Research Centre, University of Cambridge