Why Are U.S. Prisons so Religious? The Ascendance of Faith-Based Programs in an Age of Punitive Incarceration

Prof. Tanya Erzen is the Catherine Gould Chism Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Puget Sound as well as a founder and co-president of the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound, a non-profit that works to increase access to educational opportunity through higher education programs in prisons.