RT Article
T1 Confronting Christian Penal Charity: Neoliberalism and the Rebirth of Religious Penitentiaries
JF Social justice
VO 45
IS 1
SP 99
OP 119
A1 Hallett, Michael A. 1965-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747154261
AB This article addresses the rise of Christian seminary programs in US prisons as a function of penal regime change in late-modern corrections. The article documents the neoliberal roots of faith-based programming in US prisons, featuring increased reliance upon religious volunteerism as a structural charity in correctional budgeting. Federal revocation of Pell Grant eligibility for convicted felons in 1994 has produced a de facto monopoly of Christian educators promulgating an exclusively sectarian framing of offender rehabilitation. Although faith-based programming can offer effective counternarratives to punitive justice that dramatically improve the well-being of prisoners who freely volunteer, overreliance upon Christian instruction in US prisons fosters a coercively sectarian framing of rehabilitation and a newly privatized mechanism for inmate education.
K1 Prisons -- United States
K1 Corrections (Criminal justice administration)
K1 Neoliberalism
K1 Rehabilitation of criminals
K1 Church work with prisoners
K1 History
K1 Theological seminaries
K1 Christian Education
K1 Education of prisoners