New Documentary Explores Religious Revival at U.S. Maximum Security Prisons
Janson Media today announced the release of the one-hour documentary film, Faith in the Big House to U.S. television, VOD and digital markets.
Faith in the Big House explores formulas used by Christian missionaries to convert inmates in America"s prisons. At a maximum security prison farm in Louisiana, a group of Christian evangelicals arrive and conduct a carefully-scripted religious retreat. Five felons, handpicked by the prison warden, join fellow inmates in this 'Encounter with Christ.' Can these misfits -- a gang-banger, a self-styled theologian, a narcissistic rock guitarist, a twitchy jock and a former football phenom -- find redemption? Or will the experience do little to change these men? Can religion keep these convicts from almost inevitably return to lock-up?
Prison ministry leaders, including the late Charles Colson (of Watergate infamy) insist that revivals and bible studies radically reduce the number of inmates who are re-incarcerated. Many of the secular persuasion doubt their findings, favoring traditional rehabilitation and quantifiable results. Faith in the Big House considers who will be in charge of turnkey re-entry programs in the penitentiary, including job and addiction counseling. Will it be the new armies of faith-based volunteers?
Faith in the Big House was produced and directed by Jonathan Schwartz of Boston-based Interlock Media.
Read more about Faith in the Big House on the film's official website.
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