The Voluntary Sector in Prisons

PartI: 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 Prisonsand Jails: Perspectives from England and the United States EmmaHughes.- Part II: Prisoners as Volunteers.- Chapter Three.- Learning andPracticing Citizenship and Democracy Behind Bars MichelleInderbitzin, Joshua Cain, and Trevor Walraven.- Chapter Four Leading by Example:Ways that Prisoners Give Back to their Communities MichelleInderbitzin, Trevor Walraven, and James Anderson.- ChapterFive MovementsTowards Desistance Via Peer-Support Roles in Prison ChristianPerrin and Nicholas Blagden.- Chapter Six TheDevelopment of a Peer-Based Approach for Promoting Prisoner Health in anEnglish Male Young Offender Institution AnitaMehay and Rosie Meek.- Part III: The Non-Profit Sector and PrisonCulture: Interactions, Boundaries, and Opportunities.- Chapter Seven.- TheInvolvement of Nonprofit Organizations in Prisoner Reentry in the UK: PrisonerAwareness and Engagement Rosie Meek, Dina Gojkovic andAlice Mills.- Chapter Eight Carceral Devolution and the Transformation of Urban America Reuben Miller and Gwendolyn Purifoye.- ChapterNine FromEx-Offender to New Contributor: An Examination of How a Community-Based ReentryProgram Addresses Racial Barriers to Employment.- Charles H. Lea III and Laura S. Abrams.- Chapter Ten PenalAssemblages: GoverningYouth In The Penal Voluntary Sector AbigailSalole.- Part IV: Supporting the Supporters: The Voicesof Volunteers.- Chapter Eleven "Volunteers Welcome, thatis, Some Volunteers": Experiences Teaching College Courses at a Women's Prison KristenneM. Robison.- Chapter Twelve Crossing The Color Line into America's Prisons: Volunteers of Color Reflect onRace and Identity in a College Service Learning Project JenniferR. Tilton.- Chapter Thirteen Developing Self-CareStrategies for Volunteers in a Prison

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.