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- The article examines the unique seminary program at Louisiana State Penitentiary, known as Angola, where inmate graduates engage in pastoral roles within the prison.
- Inmates create and lead their own churches, provide various ministry services such as hospice care and funeral officiating, and support fellow inmates through "care packages."
- Four key themes of positive criminology arise, emphasizing respectful treatment by prison staff, the significance of trusting relationships, and how these factors contribute to the inmates' self-perception and community building.
Article Abstract
This article offers an ethnographic account of the "self-projects" of inmate graduates of Louisiana State Penitentiary's (aka "Angola's") 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 "care packages" 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,
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