New research has revealed that the Catholic faith is a significant part of prisoners’ lives in prisons of all sorts - from Young Offender Institutions to High Security prisons and female establishments.
It claims that religion can help cut re-offending rates as it moves offenders to remorse, to have empathy for victims, to focus away from crime and move into a new community.
Seventeen prisons took part and 332 prisoners responded to the survey which was carried out on behalf of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales by Lemos & Crane.
Here you can listen to Social Scientist Gerard Lemos explaining the research alongside Monsignor Roger Reader, the Catholic Bishops’ Prisons Adviser and Her Majesty’s Prison Service Catholic Faith Adviser.
