A faith-based prison is pushed

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This tiny town near the Oklahoma-Kansas state line north of Enid may soon own the country's only all-Christian prison, with Christian administrators, employees, counselors and programs.The idea is backed by Wakita's leaders, has some support from state officials, and, its founders believe, is able to pass constitutional muster."If Chicken Little doesn't come to town, we'll be open in 16 months," said Bill Robinson, the founder of Corrections Concepts Inc., a Dallas nonprofit prison ministry that is spearheading the project.A 150-acre site on the edge Wakita has been selected, and an agreement has been reached with Corrections Concepts Inc. to manage the 600-bed prison if and when it is built.
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  1. #1    "They would work full time at private industries that operate inside the prison, get job training, and earn money.The money would go to support their families, pay restitution to their victims, contribute to their own room and board, and produce a nest egg they can take when they leave prison.Classes in literacy, General Educational Development requirements and life skills would be offered, and Wayland University, a Christian college in Plainview, Texas, has agreed to put a satellite campus in the prison. "They don't have to go to church, or Bible study, but they have to participate in the curriculum, which is Christ-centered," Robinson said.He possesses legal opinions that say that as a religious organization, the prison will be able to hire only people of like faith, he said. "
    written by NewsSophisticate since 98 days 19 hours 16 minutesNewsSophisticate
  2. #2    This will be one freaky place. Full of dumbfuckery
    written by PHred42 since 98 days 16 hours 54 minutesPHred42
  3. #3    Take out the religious angle and you're left with what was once a policy for prisons known as "rehabilitation." Conservative politicians branded such policies a bunch of bleeding heart liberal coddling. Thus discredited, rehabilitation was largely abandoned and prisons became the places of cruelty rape and brutality and torture they are today. Now it seems rehabilitation is okeedokee as long as its Christian rehabilitation. Plus ca Change, actually.
    written by kevin3g since 98 days 15 hours 34 minuteskevin3g
  4. #4    This had better be ruled unconstitutional. There could be no clearer case of Establishment of Religion than subjecting inmates to this cruel and unusual punishment.
    And who's Chicken Little, BTW?
    written by CwV since 98 days 15 hoursCwV
  5. #5    one of the main objectives of Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon was to control the prisoners behavior by weaponizing the psychological effect of being observed unknowingly. Religion controls you more or less the same way. The physical marriage of these two concepts inside one prison inevitably paves the way for untold wing-nuttery.
    written by 138 since 98 days 12 hours 46 minutes138
  6. #6    rAmen, 138
    written by CwV since 98 days 12 hours 41 minutesCwV
  7. #7    pasta be praised
    written by 138 since 98 days 12 hours 29 minutes138
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