Voluntary Sector in Prisons

Laura S. Abrams is Professor of Social Welfareat the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA, California, USA. She is the author of Compassionate Confinement: A Year in theLife of Unit C (2013) and Life After Juvie: Young Men and Women on Desistance, Survival, andBecoming an Adult (forthcoming). Emma Hughes is Associate Professor ofCriminology at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is the author of thebook Education in Prison: Studyingthrough Distance Learning (2012). She has contributed bookchapters on offender rehabilitation to edited volumes and previously lecturedat 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, CharteredPsychologist, 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 ofCalifornia, San Diego, USA.

• 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.