Visitors in christ prison programs?
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What do you want to know about them? There are lots of churches that encourage groups to visit prisons and encourage the incarcerated population of our society. They do this because Jesus said that what we do to anyone is like doing it to him. He said "I was in prison and you visited me." Most visitors don't look down on prisoners and genuinely like them and they share what they know about Christ.
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See this page. There is no website for the prison itself, apparently.\nhttp://www.doc.state.nc.us/dop/list/county.htm#S
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http://www.cya.ca.gov/Visitors/facilities.html\nThere's a list of all the facilities in CA.
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Hi M_money,\nI met the IncarceratedDude once, a few weekends ago. I was walking to the corner market for a loaf of bread when I had to pass by a neighborhood church. I was somewhat acquainted with the structure as it was always mentioned in the newspaper's community section. Known as "The loft," folks would gather there on Thursday evenings for poetry readings.\nHowever, this day happened to be a Saturday afternoon and a pair of gentlemen greeted me as I walked by. They invited me inside to sample an hour of their presentation. Ok, I went inside and found myself to be a prospective new recruit for their brand of religion.\n\nMost of the pews were filled with hooded monks chanting a haunting rhythm. There were others who like me, were wearing their regular denims. The service began like most others that church-goers would be familiar with. A grand master of ceremonies led the group through some songs and gave a sermon. Near the end of the hour it was time for their ritual of "laying on of the hands." Some of the parishioners would come forward and ask for prayers for their ailments or for a sick grand mum who fell down in the tub. All the hooded dudes whose faces could not readily be seen would all place a hand on the person and their combined energies were presumed to have a strength and expedite a solution to the problem.\n\nOK now, there was another new guy in the pews who was watching eagerly. I recognized IncarceratedDude from a wanted poster viewed earlier at the post office. When he saw a chance, he approached the ring of conspirators and described how he was always moving around and never able to settle down. The hooded goons closed in upon him, all to make a physical connection. The master of ceremonies began a prayer, a dogmatic mix of logic and pure hocus-pocus. I immediately saw the effects of the procedure as the tension went out of IncarceratedDude's body. When the beseeching was near an end, the master asked, "Are the brothers ready?"\n\nA suspenseful few moments passed until he almost shouted, "NOW!"\n\nOn that cue, the brothers began to pummel their hapless victim. Continually delivering blows over head and to the solar plexus until IncarceratedDude was down on the floor getting stomped. After another minute, the grand Pooh-Bah decided the treatment administered was sufficient to induce a relaxing calm that would assuage the nervousness of IncarceratedDude for a long, long time.\n\nI can't say for certain if IncarceratedDude got the comeuppance he deserved as I had a loaf of bread to buy and some other errands to do that day. I hope for you M_money, that you do find a sense of closure to this difficult episode of life.\nor, just send an Email to incarceratedDude@cabarrus.com\n\nBrett
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This is all I could find.\nhttp://www.seweb.uci.edu/users/joan/Images/criminologist_2002.pdf#search='prison%20rehab%20studies'
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I am a regular visitor at a California State Prison and at a County Jail.... At the Prison, things are both better and worse than I had imagined before this became a reality in my life... In order to visit, I had to fill out an application, and consent to a DoJ background check... once approved, I was pleasantly surprised at my first visit at how orderly the process was and how pleasant the visiting area is.... except for the Correctional Officers and the fact that the men were all wearing the same thing, it seemed more like a cafeteria than what I'd thought a "Prison Visiting room" would be like.... Some things that troubled me: At the prison I visit, there is a program that allows visitors to purchase poloroid photographs and the proceeds go to support things like keeping toys and games in the room for visiting children and helping to fund the prison library... There is an inmate who is assigned to take the pictures,(he is also responsible for keeping the room tidy) and I was shocked to learn that it was not allowed for me to buy this fellow a soft drink as a way of expressing my appreciation for the wonderful job he did both with the pictures he took for us and keeping the room looking so nice.... Seems to me that being able to reap some reward for a job well done is a key part of the rehabilitative process, not to mention the value of a moment of normal, polite, social interaction... and it's pointless to forbid such courtesies...what could it possibly hurt?\nDuring another visit, I observed a couple at a nearby table... I had been chatting with the woman while we were waiting outside and knew she'd recently had a death in the family.... At one point during her visit, she was crying and her husband touched her face, wiping away tears... The CO reprimanded them for "Inappropriate Contact".... How is it in ANYONE'S interests to teach a man NOT to express concern or compassion? Anyone could see that there was nothing "intimate" about that gesture, it was simple kindness...a thing that should be fostered, not forbidden.\n\nThere are other examples of pointless little meannesses that seem to me to be counterproductive, but I'll leave it here... except for a detail that the public is doubtless unaware of... In California's prisons, inmates are subjected to a strip search each time the enter or leave the visiting area...even to visit the restroom. I can see why a search at the beginning and end of a visit might be reasonable, but 4 or 5 in as many hours when the visitors were already searched before being allowed into the room? (No, not strip searched, but their belongings examined, shoes inspected, pockets turned out and a pass through a metal detector and, at random, a pass throgh a an ion drug scanner)\nFor anyone interested in learning more about the realities of our prison system, take a look at http://www.prisontalk.com\n\nPopular media paints a very unrealistic picture and before you form opinions about the system, it seems like a good idea to find out more about what really goes on.
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There are many programs listed at: http://www.pallotticenter.org/\n\nWith love in Christ.
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I don't know any good ones specifically but Wikkipedia would be good. Some slaves were allowed to go to church long as there was a sheriff outside the window, making sure the pastor didn't talk abuot freedom or something. Hope this helps! Good luck on your paper.
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Hey, \n\nHMP Kirkham is a Cat D prison, it's near Preston, but there aren't any open prisons as such. you need to look on the prison service website and go to the map next to locate a prsion, then click on Lancashire and have a look at the list.
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Organise a prison tour. Make it a point to drop by the rapist and sex offenders' cells.
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http://www.bop.gov/inmate_programs/index.jsp\n\nHere is a FAQ on the Federal Prisons
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anywhere but the prison
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visit the social services
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http://prisontalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=372\n\nThere's a wonderful resource for exactly that circumstance.\nGood luck....and welcome home.
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Are you refering to Camp Crucis?\n\nhttp://www.campcrucis.org/
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I believe there is a correctional facility there.
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Central Detention Facility \nCorrectional Treatment Facility \nfour private and independently operated halfway houses (Efforts From Ex-Convicts, Extended House, Inc., Fairview, and Hope Village)