Do regular prison programs offer anything comparable for reentry, um, compared to say the Prison Fellowship Ministry?
TUTTLE: Well it’s really hard to say because, by regular prison programs do you mean an ordinary chaplaincy program that may gather people for Bible study a couple times a week? And I think it probably doesn’t, because the idea of Prison Fellowship Ministry is not just about immersion, although that’s certainly it, it’s about enculturating people into a particular form of life, and so it’s all of their encounters with people are shaped by this. The circle of contacts and support outside of the prison are encompassed by the program. So it is very different than something that somebody might come out of their environment into, ah, for a couple hours a week, it is their environment, and that’s the whole idea. The real question is whether you can do it in a way that is inclusive. And that’s the challenge, and it’s a challenge, not so much for Mr. Colson, because he doesn’t have anything to complain about, it’s not really his problem, it’s the problem of the government. That the government
