@article{ref1,
title=""First stop dying": Angola's Christian seminary as positive criminology",
journal="International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology",
year="2015",
author="Hallett, Michael and Hays, Joshua and Johnson, Byron and Jang, S. J. and Duwe, Grant",
volume="61",
number="4",
pages="445-463",
abstract="This article offers an ethnographic account of the &quot;self-projects&quot; of inmate graduates of Louisiana State Penitentiary's (aka &quot;Angola's&quot;) unique prison seminary program. Angola's Inmate Minister program deploys seminary graduates in bivocational pastoral service roles throughout America's largest maximum-security prison. Drawing upon the unique history of Angola, inmates establish their own churches and serve in lay-ministry capacities in hospice, cellblock visitation, tier ministry, officiating inmate funerals, and through tithing with &quot;care packages&quot; for indigent prisoners. Four themes of positive criminology prominently emerge from inmate narratives: (a) the importance of respectful treatment of inmates by correctional administrations, (b) the value of building trusting relationships for prosocial modeling and improved self-perception, (c) repairing harm through intervention, and (d) spiritual practice as a blueprint for positive self-identity and social integration among prisoners.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-624X",
doi="10.1177/0306624X15598179",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306624X15598179"
}