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Swift answer to my blog prayers seeking information on faith-based prisons

By Douglas A. Berman

Yesterday I asked this post "What is the current status and latest research on faith-based prisons?". Today, thanks to Professor Sasha Volokh my blog prayers have been answer via this article available now on SSRN titled "Everything We Know About Faith-Based Prisons." Here is the headline of today's must read: This Article examines everything we know about the effectiveness of faith-based prisons, which is not very much. Most studies can?t be taken seriously, because they?re tainted by the ?self-selection problem.?  It?s hard to determine the effect of faith-based prison programs, because they?re voluntary, and volunteers are more likely to be motivated to change and are therefore already less likely to commit infractions or be re-arrested...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 18, 2011 (boomark / email).