Less than 5% of inmates who complete a series of Bible correspondence courses while in jail will return to prison while 70% of the general prison population returns.

Research has proven that religiously trained individuals have a longer crime-free period following release.

Increased religiosity contributes to an inmate’s cognitive and emotional identity transformations as well as the virtues of forgiveness, empathy, and self-control, which in turn reduced inmate’s negative emotional states.

Prisoners who come under religious influence while they’re behind the walls do better once they’re back on the outside and in society than those who lack the religious influence, researchers say.

It was found that inmates who received religious instruction while in prison had a lower rate of recidivism - return to crime - after being freed than did those who had no such instruction.