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2015
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Nation's Highest Court Weighs Correctional Security and Religious Freedom
By Schultz, Eric.
"On Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, the second day of the Supreme Court’s 2014 term, the justices heard oral arguments in the case of Holt v. Hobbs, with important implications for corrections. At question in the case was whether or not the Arkansas Department of Correction’s (ADC) no-beard policy violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) and whether the half-inch beard requested by inmate Gregory Houston Holt sufficiently satisfies the department’s security goals" (p. 64... Read More
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5 pages
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2015
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Rights of Rastafarian Employees and Inmates
Americans for Effective Law Enforcement (AELE) Law Enforcement Legal Center (Chicago, IL).
"Rastafarians are named after Ras (Prince) Tafari, Selassie’s title before being crowned Emperor in 1930. The movement later was influenced by Jamaicans. There are estimates that there are as many as one million adherents to the religion worldwide. In the U.S., most adherents are African-Americans. Rastafarians engage in the spiritual use of cannabis, wear their hair in dreadlocks and are generally opposed to cutting their hair. The Ital vegetarian diet is one of the main tenets of the Rastafari... Read More
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10 pages
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2014
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Religion in Corrections: Offenders' Rights, Your Responsibility [Internet Broadcast]
By Alpern, Laurence Aryeh; Brown, Betty; Hall, Stephen; Hill, Wayne; Klemm, Ulli; Kowalcyk, Launa M.; Kreger, Elizabeth; Saulsberry, Terry J.; Turner, Ronald G.
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National Institute of Corrections (NIC) (Washington, DC).
Across the United States, chaplains and religious directors are overwhelmed with ensuring equitable consideration for all religious requests. They face the conflict of "myth versus reality" regarding the role of the chaplain/religious director in corrections, the priority of religious practice balanced with security concerns, inconsistencies in accommodation, bias in space considerations, increased need for special diets, and the effects of agency and facility budgets.
This two-day live broad... Read More
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285 minutes
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2014
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Resource Directory for Prisoners
SourcePoint Global Outreach. Naljor Prison Dharma Service (Santa Cruz, CA).
This is one of the very best resources for enabling inmates to connect with various outreach and personal growth services. These programs are organized into the following areas: Buddhist; Christian; Hindu and Yoga; further resources for psychological and spiritual transformation (ageless wisdom, interfaith, metaphysical, Native American, and psychology); legal support; free book resources; pen pal correspondence (Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, and non-religious); creative writing, artistic resourc... Read More
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2014
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Religion in Corrections – National Institute of Corrections
By Turner, Ronald G..
DC Public Safety (Washington, DC).
"The program addresses religion in corrections, referred to as one of today’s hottest legal topics in corrections. Our guest was Ronald G. Turner, who has served as lead consultant on the topic for the National Institute of Corrections and a variety of organizations. During the show, he addresses the conflict between myth and reality in religious programming, shedding light on the concern of chaplains and religious directors about how to meet the safety and security needs of a facility while ens... Read More
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30 minutes
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2014
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Are prisons really schools for terrorism? Challenging the rhetoric on prison radicalization
By Jones, Clarke R..
"When governments justify the necessity to segregate and/or isolate terrorist inmates from mainstream prisoners, they commonly raise concerns about their prisons becoming schools for terrorism. Yet, these concerns are often based on limited information about prisoner radicalization, potentially resulting in the mismanagement (both financially and psychologically) of terrorist inmates in many countries. This article challenges contemporary research on prison radicalization and recruitment by high... Read More
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30 pages
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2014
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American Correctional Chaplains Association
American Correctional Chaplains Association (ACCA) (Seattle, WA).
“Much like our colleagues in the military and at hospitals, correctional chaplains provide pastoral care to those who are disconnected from the general community by certain circumstances – in this case to those who are imprisoned, as well as to correctional facility staff and their families when requested. Where permitted, we also minister to the families of prisoners. Each correctional chaplain is also a representative of his or her faith community and is required to be endorsed by their denomi... Read More
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2014
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Certified Religious Diet Specifications Quote Sheet – FY 2015
U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) (Washington, DC).
This is a great example of the specified ingredients for various types of kosher meals. This document contain sections covering; religious certification requirements for meals by accepted Orthodox kosher certification agencies; general meal specifications; and the exact diet specifications for 14 meals and 22 kosher items.... Read More
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10 pages
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2013
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Legal Issues in Jails 2013
By Collins, William C..
National Institute of Corrections. Jails Division (Washington, DC).
Topics covered include: some religious issues in jails--head coverings, skirts, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) and inmates claims, kosher diet, and sincere religious beliefs; Bits and Pieces—Rastafarian dreadlocks search, tobacco ban, and psychogenic polydipsia; and Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) enforcement.... Read More
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35 pages
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2013
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Estimating the Benefits of a Faith-Based Correctional Program
By Duwe, Grant; Johnson, Byron R..
This “recent outcome evaluation of the InnerChange Freedom Initiative (InnerChange), a faith-based prisoner reentry program that has operated within Minnesota’s prison system since 2002, showed the program is effective in lowering recidivism. This study extends research on InnerChange by conducting a cost-benefit analysis of the program. Because InnerChange relies heavily on volunteers and program costs are privately funded, the program exacts no additional costs to the State of Minnesota. As a ... Read More
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13 pages
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2013
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Facts and Fictions about Islam in Prison: Assessing Prisoner Radicalization in Post-9/11 America
By SpearIt, ISPU Fellow.
Chicago Community Trust and Affiliates. American Muslim Civic Engagement Fund (Chicago, IL).
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) (Washington, DC).
This report explains how violence due to prison radicalization by Muslims is a rare event. "This report assesses the radicalization of Muslim prisoners in post-9/11 America. In the last decade, Muslim prisoners have been scrutinized for ties to terrorist and other extremist organizations, not to mention characterized as both a “threat” and a “danger” to national security, due to the influence of foreign jihadist movements. However, closer scrutiny shows that these fears have failed to materializ... Read More
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56 pages
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2013
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Intensive Vipassana Meditation Practice: An Intervention with Promise for Traumatized Prisoners
By Phillips, Jenny; Hopper, James W..
"Very few prisons have mental health treatment programs, and the few available, which range from educational to cognitive and behavioral in nature, do not have the capacity to treat chronic trauma and PTSD. The daily environment of prisons – aggressive and often violent, with any indication of vulnerability or weakness potentially life threatening – means such programs cannot fulfill the requirements of safe and effective trauma treatment, especially for processing and integrating memories … Si... Read More
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26 pages
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