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Faith takes a leap in jailhouse conversions. New programs test theory that religion can salvage "criminals"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Bolstered by President Bush's recent signing of the Second Chance Act, which promises more money for faith-based programs to help rehabilitate prisoners,corrections officials and religious volunteers are testing the largely unproven theory that faith can not only salvage criminals, but ? in the long run ? make the rest of us safer, too." June 22, 2008 Faith takes a leap in jailhouse conversions New programs test theory that religion can salvage "criminals" By KEVIN SIMPSON Denver Post DENVER ? Like countless others before him, Jonathan Willis rediscovered God in the solitude of a jail cell, 10 months after he'd been thrown into the Adams County lockup to await trial for murder. The blur of his crimes crystallized: The coke binge, the break-in, the brutal beating...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).