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Statistically speaking, Christ doesn’t keep people out of prison

Posted by Ampersand | June 30th, 2003

Or, at least, Christ doesn’t keep people from returning to prison. Mark Kleiman has an interesting post on how studies are spun. A study found that attendees of a special prison program for born-again Christian prisoners were a bit more likely to wind up back in prison than a control group which did not attend the program.

However, the folks who run the program have managed to spin this into saying that folks who take their program do much better than those who don’t. Neat trick. Consult Mark’s blog for the details.

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3 Responses to “Statistically speaking, Christ doesn’t keep people out of prison”

  1. dch Writes:
    June 30th, 2003 at 11:45 am

    Well, if you’ve been born again in the interim, it’s not really recidivism, is it?

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  2. Jake Writes:
    June 30th, 2003 at 12:54 pm

    HA!

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  3. John Isbell Writes:
    July 3rd, 2003 at 5:21 pm

    Well, the born-again ones did do bettter at returning to prison.

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