Will America’s First All-Christian Prison Be Built in Oklahoma?

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http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3234


Corrections Concepts Inc.’s effort to establish America’s first all-Christian prison in Oklahoma has hit some roadblocks, but it is still continuing to move down the pike.

The last time there was this much excitement in and around Wakita, Oklahoma, was when a tornado nearly destroyed the town. Fortunately, that was in the blockbuster movie Twister. Now, another less ephemeral twister could shake up the town; a proposal from the Dallas, Texas-based Corrections Concepts Inc., to have this sleepy town some 40 miles from the Kansas border become the home to America’s first all-Christian prison.

And while the proposal might still be a pipedream for Bill Robinson, the founder of Corrections Concepts Inc. (http://correctionsconcepts.org/), it appears to be inching ever closer to reality.

Robinson recently told the Tulsa (Oklahoma) World that a bonding company had expressed interest in his project -– a private prison administered by Christian officials, attended to by Christian guards, adhering to Christian programming and stocked with Christian prisoners -- and that full funding for it depended upon states agreeing to send 285 prisoners to the facility.

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“The facility would be open to Christian inmates facing their last 12 to 30 months of incarceration before their earliest release date,” EnidNews.com reported in early March.

“Residents sign an agreement with the management that states they will participate in all programs and employment and their worship practices will not be impugned,” Robinson said.
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“Each inmate receives a needs assessment for counseling, education, health care and marketable-skill employment. Individualized programs are established to meet each inmate’s needs. Counseling is a minimum of three hours per week per resident, with a counselor-to-patient ratio of 1 to 24 at the proposed 600-bed facility.

“Counseling covers drug and alcohol, family, sex or violence issues and offers therapy to meet an inmate’s dysfunctional needs. Education offered is basic literacy, allowing inmates to take high school equivalency, vocational and technical and college-level courses.”

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Bill Robinson is hopeful that the lure of jobs to Wakita and an influx of new money to the area, will trump church-state separation issues.
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the religiously insane are dangerous

[gmoney]

1. How "Christian" these criminals must be to have wound up in prison.

I can just see every criminal who gets convicted saying "yeah, I'm Christian... that's the ticket! Send me to Wakita please!" so they can be the toughest guy on the block.

Something tells me that the Christian guards will be sadistic and twisted as only those who are "doing the Lord's work" can be.

[rrneck]

2. Corrections Concepts.

Sounds like a frigging beauty parlor for people having a bad hair day. That idiot should be locked up in his own prison to protect the rest of us from his arrogance and stupidity.

[SocialistLez]

3. This CAN'T be legal.

In any case, I am so sick of the expansion of prisons.

If we ended the War on Drugs the growth of prisons would definitely fall.

[Duer 157099]

4. Isn't that what churches are? n/t

[kickysnana]

5. Great, no more preachers at the Fed nursing home in Rochester, MN.n/t

[pipi_k]

6. And since when have the religiously insane ever cared about "rehabilitation"?

anyway, hey...it would be interesting to see what happens...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. Americans United sued three states over this.

Americans United for Separation of church and State sued Oklahoma, Kansas and California over all-Christian prisons.

Blatantly unconstitutional.
This is a NO BRAINER.

Yes I am a lawyer but I do not play one on TV.

[krabigirl]

8. It should be packed quickly. Studies have shown that far more Christians are in jail ro

per capita than their non-religious counterparts (or those of another religion).