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How We Saved Texas Prison Chaplaincy 2011 Immeasurable Value of Religion, Volunteers and Their Chaplains
Forewords by
Frank E. Graham Jr.
Jerry A. Madden,
Senior Fellow, Right on Crime;
Carol S. Vance,
Former Chairman of the TBCJ;
Dr. Keith Bellamy,
Senior Minister, Woodville Church of Christ;
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FY2004
Chaplaincy Stats ~ Compare > FY
2002 ~ FY 2001
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2000 ~
FY 1999
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FY
1998
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These are extraordinary Performance Measures -- here
for the first time.
See also the
TX State Auditor's Guide to Performance Measure Management
- 2000 ed.
Brown, Leo E., “Prison Chaplaincy,” Inside Corrections (March/April, 2012), 9-33, see www.Ok.gov/doc/documents/marchapril.pdf, the role of prison chaplaincy in Oklahoma, the whole issue devoted to highlighting chaplaincy--superb article!
email me if link to original is changes: maness3@att.net
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Excellent
contribution to the vast corpus of literature on affects of religion on
crime ... and thereby in every
sentence supporting the value of staff prison chaplaincy . . . . . . .  open source |
Religion and Crime:
Kerley is Professor of Criminology and
Criminal Justice and Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal
Justice at The University of Texas at Arlington. From the preface:
"The scientific study of religion is a rather recent development in
colleges and universities in the United States and in other nations.
Beginning in the 1960s, researchers from many social science backgrounds
began conducting data-driven studies of the extent to which religiosity
is related to crime, deviance, and delinquency. Since the 1980s, social
scientists have also studied the nature, extent, practice, and impact of
faith and faith-based programs in prisons and other correctional
contexts. This volume contains the most contemporary and cutting-edge
research on religion and crime, which includes data-driven (quantitative
and qualitative), conceptual, review, and policyoriented papers."
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Chaplaincy-Volunteer Statistics Record Retention - no change 2000-2015, 15 years
Gib Lewis Unit Secretary's Handbook ~ View of part of tasking elements of office
Gib Lewis Unit Secretary's Handbook - File System ~ the primary records schedule
David Grosse, Exploring Chaplaincy Ministry, Church of the Nazarene (2006; 182 pp.).
Donald Meichenbaum “Trauma, Spirituality, and Recovery: Toward a Spiritually-Integrated Psychotherapy,” (2009; 39 pp.), He is the distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo and founding member of The Melissa Institute for Violence Prevention and Treatment. He holds the dual distinction of having been voted “one of the ten most influential psychotherapists of the century” (reported in the American Psychologist) and being the most cited psychology researcher at a Canadian university; www.MelissaInstitute.org/.
Lydia Hearn, Renee Campbell-Pope, Joanne House, Donna Cross, Pastoral Care in Education (Western Australia: Edith Cowan University, 2006; 92 pp.).
Judy Fleischman, “Chaplaincy Best Practices for Care of ‘Spiritual Not Religious’ Persons,” APC Conference, (Anaheim, CA: June 22, 2014). Fleischman, PhD, is the founder of www.OpenSourceChaplaincy.com.
Killing Professional Chaplaincy Series
After dozens of letters, 100s of Open Record requests, three
huge books documenting with zero response from major
players, what is TDCJ Exec. Dir. Bryan Collier really
covering up? .
Volume 1. 2001 – Chaplain Professional Equity and Market Study w Ethical Violations Timeline, www.PreciousHeart.net/chaplaincy/01-Chaplain_Pt_2_Timeline_2001.pdf, with four TDCJ chaplains, I personally delivered this 100-page treatise to TDCJ Exec. Dir. Gary Johnson that documented many unethical business practices. It had much of the 2000 Chaplain Professional Equity proposal we used in the 2001 Texas Legislature to gain our first pay raise in 40-plus years, yet with a critical timeline of unethical tweaking of the Chaplaincy Director's job to suit favored applicants, pages 54-65.
Volume 2. 2012 - Faith-Based Housing Letter, www.PreciousHeart.net/Maness-Faith-Based-Housing.pdf,
heartfelt 50-page letter to Brad Livingston asking him to
meet with a Barry Lynn of the Americans United for
Separation of Church and State. It exposes several ethical
violations and is the first exposure of the unconstitutional
nature of the Seminary Scam. Soon after this, I was
persecuted for whistleblowing and forced to retire.
Volume 3. 2013 - TDCJ Book of Secrets
on the Longest Cover Up in TDCJ History: Case of the
Enchanting Chaplain, 700 pp., 139 MBs, first 100
pages documented how I was set up with falsified documents,
then the rest details the vast policy violations at the
Polunsky Unit and Michael Upshaw’s cleaning of contraband,
clearing of violators, and more. Included were two CDs and a
DVD with videos and dozen recorded interviews! Hard
copies to Livingston, OIG, and Texas AG.
See Bryan
Collier's three-sentence reply here: Collier-01-21-14-Nothing
Volume 4. 2015
– How
We Saved Texas Prison Chaplaincy
2011—Immeasurable Value of Religion,
Volunteers, and Their Chaplains, Forewords by Jerry A.
Madden, senior fellow for Right on Crime and 2011 chairman
of the Texas House Corrections Committee, and Carol S.
Vance, former chairman of Texas Board of Criminal Justice
and Harris County District Attorney (1966-79) (AuthorHouse,
2015; 394 pp.), www.preciousheart.net/Saved.
We networked across Texas to stop the deletion of TDCJ
Chaplaincy which was dead on arrival in the 2011
legislature. In a fight, we saved the entire budget. The
appendices show Chaplaincy recovers its operating costs
several times over and is the most productive program in
RPD: “Chaplains facilitate the greatest source for change
and solace in human history—Religion.”
Volume 5. 2017 - TDCJ Book of Secrets Part
2, Goodman Unit Hiring Scam, www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/GoodmanUnit2017.pdf,
180-pg, most detailed audit of a hiring package in TDCJ
history showing multiple violations. A white warden hired a
white career laundry man over black U.S. Army combat veteran
career chaplain!
Volume 6. 2019 - TDCJ Deep State Report:
Case of the Collared Fox, www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/TDCJ-OIG-2019.pdf,
177-page
- Cover Letters of 1st, 2nd, & 3rd
sends to Bryan Collier & 50+ TX Leaders, Jurists, and
District Attorneys, www.PreciousHeart.net/OIG/Big-50-Send.pdf
Volume 7. Revised 2023 - When Texas Prison Scams Religion--TBCJ's 25-year Legacy of Cover Ups, 824 pages, documented from 100's of open record requests and 1,000-plus sources.
~ 105 Letters to Major Stakeholders in Prison Efficacy ~
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"16 Killings" Letter to
100+ Stakeholders - 16 Killings in TDCJ 9-20-2023 ~
and another killing right
after systemwide lockdown ~
unbelievable
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TDCJ Chaplaincy and Volunteer Reports Other Useful Sources
Volunteer Handbook - 1994 ~ Written with TDCJ Prison Volunteer in mind, first one published in TDCJ in 1994, used at the Lewis Unit, Stiles Unit, and Polunsky Unit, and others throughout the state until TDCJ developed its own Gib Lewis Secretary's Handbook ~ View of part of tasking elements of office Gib Lewis Secretary's Handbook - File System ~ the primary records schedule
Hospitality Program Rules ~ General Rules for hosts Marriage Seminar - Inmate Orientation ~ Orientation outline "prior" to seminar Marriage Seminar - Check List ~ List of items prior to & throughout for a quality full prison marriage seminar Erik Erikson's Eight Stages of Life - more work needs to be done on the hand-in-glove work of senior volunteers in prison. As a 20-year chaplain, I could write a book on this, and perhaps ought to. The long story is how much the volunteers do already, in faith, certainly and foremost, but there is so much more and a whole line of psychology still untapped. Not first but surely refined and articulated best in Erik Erikson’s eight stages of life, how senior volunteers have successfully negotiated the first seven stages of life and desire to give back, and in prison where most of the still developing young men have failed in the first few stages and are still in search for of a decent civilized identity, etc.—and, no, work on that yet in Texas either. Furthermore, some Christian theorists have added to Erikson analogous faith stages, though Erikson is still the place to start. See Erikson’s Identity and the Life Cycle (NY: International Universities Press, 1959), Insight and Responsibility (NY: Norton, 1964), and Identity: Youth and Crisis (NY: Norton, 1968).
See more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson%27s_stages_of_psychosocial_development.
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site began in circa
1998 for all things on prison chaplaincy - one of
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God Bless America and Texas and You
Prison Staff Chaplains . . .
Serve and Struggle . . .
fellow chaplains, please, take advice from Pvt. Treptow
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