Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; About the Authors; 1 Angola: "Human Life Had No Value"; 2 Prison Religion and Angola's Prison Seminary; 3 Angola and the Seminary in Context; 4 Identity Transformation, Religion, and Desistance in Prison; 5 Ecumenism, Interfaith Cooperation, and Inmate Ministry: Religious Pluralism at Louisiana State Penitentiary; 6 Faith, Church Attendance, and Service: Pathway to Transformation and Freedom; 7 The Angola Model: A New Prosocial Gospel for American Prisons; Epilogue on Burl Cain; Authors' Note; Index