%0 Journal Article
%T U.S. Prison Seminaries: Structural Charity, Religious Establishment, and Neoliberal Corrections
%A Bryon Johnson
%A Grant Duwe
%A Joshua Hays
%A Michael Hallett
%A Sung Joon Jang
%J The Prison Journal
%@ 1552-7522
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0032885519825490
%X Using archival and site-based research, this article explores operational practices at six U.S. prison seminary programs regarding concepts of religious establishment. Further highlighted is a shift toward faith-based volunteerism as a ˇ°structural charityˇ± in correctional budgeting. While religious programs offer powerfully transformative access to social capital for many inmates, the recent insertion of Christian ˇ°seminariesˇ± into U.S. prisons arguably fosters religious establishment in four key areas: a lack of state neutrality toward religion, excessive state entanglement with religious service providers, inadequate solicitation of alternative programming, and a de facto measure of coercion in delivery of services
%K prison seminaries
%K Establishment Clause
%K religion in prison
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0032885519825490