Laura S. Abrams & Emma Hughes 
The Voluntary Sector in Prisons 
Encouraging Personal and Institutional Change

This volume examines how volunteers and non-profit programs encourage institutional change in prisons and offer individual support and services to people who are housed behind bars. Through a diverse set of chapters, including two that are co-written by current prisoners, the volume spans the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and juvenile and adult facilities. The book showcases the exciting, groundbreaking, and yet often unrecognized work that the voluntary sector provides in correctional settings. Collectively, the chapters highlight beneficial practices while raising critical questions about the role of the voluntary sector in prison and reentry settings. The chapters also offer useful information about how to implement innovative prison programs that promote health, education, and peer support. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Background.- 
Chapter One  Introduction The Significance of Voluntary Sector Provision in Correctional Settings 
Laura S. Abrams, Emma Hughes, Rosie Meek, Michelle Inderbitzin.- 
Chapter Two  Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector Programs in Prisons and Jails: Perspectives from England and the United States 
Emma Hughes.- Part II: Prisoners as Volunteers.- 
Chapter Three.-  Learning and Practicing Citizenship and Democracy Behind Bars 
Michelle Inderbitzin, Joshua Cain, and Trevor Walraven.- 
Chapter Four  Leading by Example: Ways that Prisoners Give Back to their Communities 
Michelle Inderbitzin, Trevor Walraven, and James Anderson.- 
Chapter Five  Movements Towards Desistance Via Peer-Support Roles in Prison 
Christian Perrin and 
Nicholas Blagden.- 
Chapter Six  The Development of a Peer-Based Approach for Promoting Prisoner Health in an English Male Young Offender Institution 
Anita Mehay and Rosie Meek.- Part III: The Non-Profit Sector and Prison Culture: Interactions, Boundaries, and Opportunities.- Chapter Seven.- The Involvement of Nonprofit Organizations in Prisoner Reentry in the UK: Prisoner Awareness and Engagement 
Rosie Meek, Dina Gojkovic and Alice Mills.- 
Chapter Eight  Carceral Devolution and the Transformation of Urban America 
Reuben Miller and Gwendolyn Purifoye.- 
Chapter Nine  From Ex-Offender to New Contributor: An Examination of How a Community-Based Reentry Program Addresses Racial Barriers to Employment.- 
Charles H. Lea III and Laura S. Abrams.- 
Chapter Ten  Penal Assemblages: Governing Youth In The Penal Voluntary Sector 
Abigail Salole.- Part IV: Supporting the Supporters: The Voices of Volunteers.- 
Chapter Eleven  “Volunteers Welcome, thatis, Some Volunteers”: Experiences Teaching College Courses at a Women’s Prison 
Kristenne M. Robison.- 
Chapter Twelve  Crossing The Color Line into America’s Prisons: Volunteers of Color Reflect on Race and Identity in a College Service Learning Project 
Jennifer R. Tilton.- 
Chapter Thirteen  Developing Self-Care Strategies for Volunteers in a Prison Writing Program Tobi Jacobi and Lara Rose Roberts. 

Über den Autor

Laura S. Abrams is Professor of Social Welfare at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA, California, USA. She is the author of Compassionate Confinement: A Year in the Life of Unit C (2013) and Life After Juvie: Young Men and Women on Desistance, Survival, and Becoming an Adult (forthcoming). 
Emma Hughes is Associate Professor of Criminology at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is the author of the book Education in Prison: Studying through Distance Learning (2012). She has contributed book chapters on offender rehabilitation to edited volumes and previously lectured at Birmingham City University, UK. 
Michelle Inderbitzin is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University, USA. She is the lead author of the books Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective (2013) and Perspectives on Deviance and Social Control (2015).


Rosie Meek is Professor, Chartered Psychologist, and Head of the Law School at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. She is the author of
Sport in Prison (2014) and is a Fulbright distinguished scholar, University of California, San Diego, USA.