Faith-based TV gains popularity in prisons (23.09.08)

A Christian television programme shown in prisons around America has become a hit with inmates, according to the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), who commissioned it.

Director of TBN, Amy Fihn, commented about the success of ‘Second Chance’. "It’s a unique tool for prisoners, one that can help bring them to a healthier level emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. Our goal is not only to provide help for inmates now, but to prepare them for future success when most of them will re-enter society."  

The programme, which is funded by TBN, the largest faith-based network in the world is designed to rebuild the lives of inmates and to create receptiveness. It also receives no funding from government taxpayer dollars and provides up to four different channels along with the equipment to receive them free of charge to correctional and rehabilitative facilities.

TBN joined with Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the country’s largest corrections management company to federal, state and local government to extend Second Chance to more than 75,000 offenders housed in CCAs correctional centres in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

Edited by Charlene Marshall