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| Town planning faith-based prison |
| By usatoday.com |
| Published: 11/02/2009 |
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A small Oklahoma town is backing plans to open a privately run, faith-based prison that will have only Christians on its staff, The Tulsa World reports. Wakita Mayor Kelly George and other town officials are fully behind the proposed 600-bed prison that would be located on a 150-acre site on the edge of town, the paper says. Bill Robinson, an ex-con and founder of Corrections Concepts Inc., a Dallas-based, non-profit prison ministry that is heading the project, tells the newspaper that he believes the prison wil be open in 16 months. "The staff, being all born-again believers, will see this as a mission," he says. That, he says, is "about changing criminals into citizens." The prison would accept only inmates near the end of their sentences who volunteer to attend and sign an agreement to participate, the paper says. "They don't have to go to church, or Bible study, but they have to participate in the curriculum, which is Christ-centered," Robinson says. Read More. |
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