Prisoners Helping Prisoners Change: a Study of Inmate Field Ministers Within Texas Prisons

Research on incarcerated offenders trained to help prisoners change is rare because programs that equip inmates with practical capacities for helping others rehabilitate in prison hardly exist. An exception is the Field Ministry program in Texas, which enlists inmates who have graduated from a priso...

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Main Author: Jang, Sung Joon (Author)
Contributors: Duwe, Grant ; Hallett, Michael A. ; Hays, Joshua ; Johnson, Byron R.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Year: 2020, Volume: 64, Issue: 5, Pages: 470-497
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Keywords:
Field Ministry
Inmate helper
Peer mentoring
Prison
Prison seminary
Rehabilitation
Religion
peer mentoring