Higher education behind bars

Jason M. Breslow

A glance at the November/December issue of The Humanist: Higher education behind bars

States should avoid faith-based programs for rehabilitating prison inmates, and concentrate instead on increasing prisoners' access to education, writes Lawrence T. Jablecki, a philosophy professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, who also lectures to inmates in the Texas prison system.

"Christ-centered biblically based" programs "designed to root out sin" are no better than