Description
Mass Incarceration
The “Walk With Me Group Mentoring Reentry Program” is a research-based answer to the question: What should constitute the core curriculum and design of a church-based, post-release, re-entry program that utilizes a successful former offender to mentor recently released men from Prince George’s County, Maryland into successful pro-social lifestyles?
This chapter provides a review of relevant literature that is pertinent to creating a church-based, post release re-entry program. The review begins by analyzing the correlation between race, poverty, and criminality juxtaposed to the phenomenon of mass incarceration and its root causes.
This review will consider what influence Christian ethics has or should have in response to race, religion, and mass incarceration and how Christian ethics and the Christian command and responsibility to love others obligates the church to serve those who have been marginalized and subsequently imprisoned.
This chapter explores the qualitative data of different reentry models from all over the country, highlighting their challenges and effectiveness, and then concludes with the case studies and narratives of returning citizens that emphasize the hardships and successes of reintegrating into society after being released from prison.
