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Religion in corrections

  • Correctional Religious Programs [Participant's Manual]

    Religious programming issues are discussed.
  • Inmate Religious Beliefs and Practices TRM [Technical Reference Manual]

    This manual provides practical guidelines for administrators and chaplains to appropriately accommodate inmate religious beliefs and practices.
  • Faith-Based Approach to Correctional Issues: Report of the National Institute of Corrections Advisory Board Hearings

    Answers to the questions of whether successful public-private faith-based partnerships exist, roadblocks to such collaborations, and what role the
  • Islam's Place and Practice of Worship in the Correctional Environment

    This presentation provides an introductory overview to the masjid (prayer hall or mosque) and the religious worship of Islam and guidance for accom
  • A Model for Social Justice: Collaboration Between Faith-Based and Community Organizations and Corrections: Highlights

    Highlights are provided of advice given by individuals from correctional agencies and faith-based and community organizations on how to create succ
  • Estimating the Benefits of a Faith-Based Correctional Program

    This “recent outcome evaluation of the InnerChange Freedom Initiative (InnerChange), a faith-based prisoner reentry program that has operated withi
  • Legal Issues in Jails 2013

    Topics covered include: some religious issues in jails--head coverings, skirts, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) and i
  • American Correctional Chaplains Association

    “Much like our colleagues in the military and at hospitals, correctional chaplains provide pastoral care to those who are disconnected from the gen
  • The Sociology of Humanist, Spiritual, and Religious Practice in Prison: Supporting Responsivity and Desistance from Crime

    “This paper presents evidence for why Corrections should take the humanist, spiritual, and religious [H/S/R] self-identities of people in prison se
  • Religion in Corrections: Offenders' Rights, Your Responsibility [Internet Broadcast]

    Across the United States, chaplains and religious directors are overwhelmed with ensuring equitable consideration for all religious requests.
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