Reply #8: Prison ministries are great, state-paid indoctrination, not so good [View All]

[noonwitch]

Prison ministries, supported by churches, coming into prisons using their own funds, are good for inmates. They get visitors, they get books and Bible study, and those who are doing the ministering get the satisfaction of helping someone in need.

But the state shouldn't pay-it could lead to too many questions. Like are the people in the christian prison program getting any kind of preferential treatment? Or the opposite? Better to have the state run the prisons.