Radically Changing Correctional Cultures

Have you ever looked at a centuries-old system and wondered if there was any hope that it could change? If you work or serve within a correctional environment, then you certainly have. Howie has lived and worked inside the systemically flawed American correctional system for decades and has employed strategies that show great promise. For a couple centuries the American penal system has continued to be broken, and any victories we see for culture change are small, isolated, and usually short-lived. LFTBU is a provocative new approach to changing the correctional environment from the inside out, and from the bottom up, using the inmates themselves to effect that change. Howie challenges all of us who have a heart to see correctional environments become something better to view through a new lens. While you may not agree with everything you read within these pages, it is the author’s hope that you will be challenged by some of it and want to try using it in your ministries and work with the incarcerated.