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In 1997 the Verne Prison permitted the setting up of a distinct Christian
community within its walls, the first prison to do so within the western world.
Offered as a solution to the problem of control in that prison, it rapidly
spread to three other prisons in the UK. By 1999 it had inspired the
development of similar programmes in other countries. By 2002, however, all but
one of the units in England and Wales had closed. This book tells the
controversial story of the sudden rise and fall of Kainos Community. It lays
bare the twin origins of the programme in Brazil and the United States, and the
confluence of forces within the Prison Service in England and Wales that led to
its introduction and uncritical expansion. It looks at the collapse of the
original Kairos-APAC Trust that made headline news in 1999. For the first time
the book provides an accessible account of the findings of the independent
evaluation of Kainos' operations, and why it generated both hope and concern.
Religion and Rehabilitation: the story of Kainos Community is a case study of
an innovative programme - one that did not live up to its early promise, but
one that still raised standards of humanity, decency
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