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| It was a good year for faith-based prison programs |
| By tallahassee.com - Hugh MacMillan |
| Published: 12/08/2011 |
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This year may be remembered as the one when the Florida prison system really did begin to make some fundamental progress. One key reason is the sustained presence of more and more prison volunteers whose patient good work is helping prisoners to help themselves through faith- and character-based programs. Many of the volunteers are young, bright college students. Many are retired teachers and social workers with a lifetime of true service and skills. Horizon Communities in Prison is a tax-exempt nonprofit Florida corporation established by Kairos Prison Ministry to sponsor and support programs in prisons to prepare inmates for re-entry into society. Pilot re-entry programs established at Tomoka Correctional Institution (1999) and Wakulla Correctional Institution's faith and character-based facility (2006) have built a good record, utilizing community volunteers and inmate facilitators who work with a difficult inmate population. The Department of Corrections and Horizon have worked together to build a program that has been free of legal challenges and successful in recruiting volunteers from various faith-based and secular institutions. Read More. |
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