NPR Interview: Lowering Recidivism Through Spiritual Care

Does access to spiritual care actually help boost the chances that an inmate will stay on the straight and narrow once they’re released from prison? We talk to chaplain and researcher Tom O’Connor and to filmmaker Martin Doblmeier about how chaplaincy can reduce recidivism, and save taxpayer dollars.

Martin Doblmeier, director of the documentary “Chaplains”
Tom O’Connor, prison chaplain and founder of Transforming Corrections