Prison Visiting
Abstract
Prison Visiting SAGE Publications, Inc.1936DOI: 10.1177/003288553601600311 T.W.Barnhill Recently, I listened to a sermon by a well know clergyman, stationed near Philadelphia, his topic being "The Man Behind". It was an interesting message portraying the responsibility of one person to another. The clergyman related an experience in his early life, when a man sitting behind him in a meeting leaned forward and said, "Now is the time to make your decision". He made the decision then, which resulted in his life's work of ministering to and leading men and women to a new life. He stated that the man who influenced him to make the decision, though long since passed on to his reward, has ever been behind him and influencing him in his work. My contact with men in prison leads me to believe most of them. have in some way acquired a habit of distorted thinking. I believe it is the special work of the prison visitor to ca,refully and slowly guide such minds into new channels of thought by kindly advice; by pointing out the penalty of wrong thinking and acting, and the reward of right thinking and doing; suggesting or supplying good reading material, novels