Good god no! It isn't good for anyone to turn to religion for the simple fact that religions promote discrimination, racism, child abuse, violence and devalue the life we lead here on earth. Point by point. Discrimination-- the Bush doctrine inscribed on the stained glassed windows of every church if you look hard enough-- if you're not with us, you're against us. Enough said.

Racism--Mormons and their Laminite theory which they used against first nation peoples to dislodge them from their territories without any compensation-- they simply said that God told them the Indians were evil by virtue of their birth. We see this racist tone of exclusion in almost every religion with some pretty serious consequences for the victims ( Jews, South American Indians, Moslems, Cathars ad nauseum. ) Child abuse-- systemic in the Catholic religion and very wide spread. What is less obvious is that most religion traumatize children to get them to believe. God is represented as a vicious punisher, a killer in fact and if he doesn't scare a child to the point of nightmares then the devil is brought in to finish the job. Child abuse plain and simple. Violence- Whack job extremists who think God has told them it is okay to kill. Include not only the 9 11 boys but a good portion of the American military in this group. Devalue life-- well just the fact that the afterlife is supposed to be so great pretty much devalues this life by a factor of ten. What happens when we do this. It makes it okay for others to suffer because they will get their reward later. It permits us to ignore the problem.

You want safer jails. Lessen the population first by decriminalizing drugs. Then attack the causes of crime which mean give free abortion rights to all, teach people to raise their children without violence, without hitting them, modify the American dream which makes losers out of so many people by installing a progressive tax system that narrows the gap between rich and poor and institute a 2 year national service program for every youth no exceptions between the ages of 18 and 28

Religion will make things worse not better. Look at the track record so far.

Not necessarily! It truly depends on their motivation for doing so. If it's a means to an end then no, but if it is genuine then yes, by all means avail yourself of whatever religion can bring to you. When I say a means to an end I mean a person who, with good behavior, can cut his/her prison/jail time by a fairly substantial amount and that's the only reason they're playing the part of the Good Christian or whatever their religion used to be. Of course, they would have to do more than that in order to get out on good behavior, but that's an easy start.

I'm not a fan of the "Born Again Christian" movement as I find a good majority of them to be disingenuous and rather brainwashed. It seems as though they talk the talk but don't walk the walk. And when I say talk the talk I mean it! They rarely talk about anything else with the exception of their bitter lot in life.

A prisoner has many hours, days, weeks, months and sometimes years to spend examining their lives, if that's what they choose to do. If, within that search, they find their God and see how the practices of their religion can see them through the rest of their lives, then I'm all for it.

Any prisoner attempting to turn towards religion should be put in jail.... wait.... What?!

Not at all. Now it jut means former psychos are apart of a religion. They are still psychos, some were already in that religion and just ignored it for the duration of their crime.