Care to share any stories?
Care to share any stories?
For the most part, there really aren't any stories. There is always a remnant of course. Obviously, California prisons are not typical of the outside world. As a custody officer, I had to sit in on some of their so called Christian discussions. The garbage I heard, included everything from Hinduism to Wicca. Not exactly Biblical material. The vast majority of the inmates that even claimed Christianity, were involved in the chapel program, because the other inmates left the ones in the chapel program alone, and did not mess with them. They still ran their drugs and illegal activities. We busted them regularly. In 25 years, I think I could count on one hand the number of criminals that I personally thought might have been sincere about their faith. When they paroled, they left their Bibles at the gate. For the most part. that was true of the black muslims too. It was a spiritual wasteland, even though the chaplains were doing the best they could. I wish I could be more positive about it, but that is the reality. It wasn't pretty.