Articles
How to Pray for Correctional Staff
A guided prayer to pray for the men and women serving on the correctional staff
Human Trafficking
Human trafficking involves the use of force, coercion, or fraud to induce an individual into performing a commercial sexact (sex trafficking), or to subject them to involuntary servitude, debt bondage, or slavery (labor trafficking). Languagebarriers, lack of personal...
Impact of Incarceration on Families and Children – Ilinda Jackson
In Our Backyard: Overcoming Community Resistance to Reentry Housing (A NIMBY Toolkit)
Community-based service providers around the country working in the reentry field have begun to respond to this overwhelming need with few resources. This toolkit highlights the experience of The Fortune Society in its development of a housing project in West Harlem....
Incarcerated Adults with Dependent Children
Study on incarcerated adults with dependent children
Incarcerated Females and the Issue of Sexuality – Kristi Miller
Increasing Awareness of Correctional Ministry
The Opportunity of a Lifetime: Reflections on Link Between Prison and Diaspora Ministries God is raising up a new supply of workers for the harvest in the most unexpected places. Written by CMCA Advisory Member, Don Allsman
Indicators of Mental Health Problems of Inmates
About 1 in 7 state and federal prisoners and 1 in 4 jail inmates self-reported experiences that met the threshold for serious psychological distress (SPD) in the 30 days prior to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ 2011-12 National Inmate Survey. In comparison, data...
Inmate Peer Ministry: Management and Results – Vance Drum and Kristi Miller
Inmate Religious Beliefs
The Department of Corrections acknowledges the inherent and constitutionally protected rights of incarcerated offenders to believe, express and exercise the religion of their choice. It is our intention that religious programs will promote positive values and moral...