A intriguing report on a faith-based prison

This BBC News piece presents an intriguing account of some inmates’ experiences with faith-based prison programming at the Tucker Correctional Facility, near Little Rock, Arkansas (hat tip: Corrections Sentencing).  The piece notes the constitutional litigation over faith-based prison programming, and it makes me wonder when an Eighth Circuit panel (which includes retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) will be issuing an opinion in the litigation arising from faith-based prison programming in Iowa.

Some related posts:

• The virtues of faith-based prisons
• Interesting examination of faith-based prison movement
• A thoughtful, but disappointing, attack on a faith-based prison program
• Religion, sentencing and corrections
• Having faith in prisons
• Considering faith-based corrections programming