Finding Freedom in Confinement: The Role of Religion in Prison Life

What is the nature and impact of faith and religion in prison? This book summarizes contemporary and cutting—edge research on religion in correctional contexts, enabling a scientific understanding of how prisoners use faith in their everyday lives.

Religion long has been a tool for correctional treatment. In the United States, religion was the primary treatment modality in the first prisons. Only since the 1980s, however, have social scientists begun to study the nature, extent, practice, an...