Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Texas officials plan seminary at Darrington prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Texas officials plan seminary at Darrington prison © 2010 The Associated Press Sept. 11, 2010, 10:22AM AUSTIN, Texas ? Texas officials say they plan to open a non-denominational seminary at the maximum-security Darrington Unit south of Houston. The program will train inmates serving long sentences to be ministers. Those who graduate from the four-year program will be able to minister to inmates at other prisons. State Sen. John Whitmire tells the Austin American-Statesman a similar program in Louisiana helped transform a violent prison there into one where there's not even cursing. The Darrington prison has had problems with violence and contraband, but Whitmire says that's why he thinks it's a good place to put the seminary ? because the program can bring change...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 12, 2010 (boomark / email).