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The first Books to Prisoners projects were founded in the early 1970s. These included Seattle's Books to Prisoners, Boston's Prison Book Program, and the Prison Library Project which was founded in Durham, North Carolina but relocated to Claremont, California in 1986.
As of 2010 2,309 male and female inmates were taking the Little Lambs Bible Disciple Training Course. Program graduates number many thousands. The course curriculum is 500 pages long. The organization works with prison chaplains, especially in Florida, to get the Salas face-to-face with prisoners to do a more effective job of ministry. [1]
Crossroads Bible Institute (CBI) provided faith-based reentry education for people in prison in the United States and around the world. It was founded in 1984. [1]As a state-licensed post-secondary school, CBI offered courses on three levels corrected by trained and certified Instructors. [2]
In the 19th century Quaker ideas, [4] [5] were co-opted by Pennsylvania prisons which had inmates meditate upon their crimes as a key component of rehabilitation. [6] [7] In the 1970s organizations such as the Prison-Ashram Project [8] and SYDA Foundation began programs to offer meditation or yoga instruction to inmates.
A formerly incarcerated person revealed why she always kept a Bible in prison. TikToker Keri Blakinger identifies as a "felon" and a reporter. She shared the "real reason" she always had a ...
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Prison libraries provide a space for inmates to meet with others with common interests. Though funding is limited, some prison librarians are diligent in providing programming. Such programs include book clubs and community service projects. [9] Many inmates utilize the library as a means of escape from the reality of their current situations.
Last year Italian courts convicted 207 people and sentenced them to a combined 2,100 years in prison on charges related to their membership in Italy's 'ndrangheta organized crime syndicate.