Confronting Christian Penal Charity: Neoliberalism and the Rebirth of Religious Penitentiaries
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2018
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Social justice
Year: 2018, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 99-119 |
| Further subjects: | B
Christian Education
B Prisons -- United States B Education of prisoners B Church work with prisoners B Corrections (Criminal justice administration) B Rehabilitation of criminals B Theological seminaries B History B Neoliberalism |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Social justice
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