Title: Relationships for incarcerated individuals - Wikipedia
Headings: Relationships for incarcerated individuals
Relationships for incarcerated individuals
Contents
Non-romantic social support
Surrogate families
Religion while incarcerated
Education while incarcerated
Intimate partner relationships
One incarcerated partner IPRs
Benefits
Barriers
Divorce
Barriers to future IPRs
Benefits of heterosexual IPRs
Characteristics of homosexual IPRs
Incarcerated individuals as parents
Growing numbers
Children of incarcerated parents
Parent-child contact
Financial impact
Relationships and reoffending
Social context upon release
Social costs as deterrents
Visitation
Marriage and family
See also
References
External links

Content: Time spent utilizing religious opportunities and studies has more positive associations with inmates’ mental health and behavior than their nonreligious counterparts, demonstrated by higher scores on self-reports of self-satisfaction and confidence as well as lower rule violations. Possible reasons may be that spending time away from prison cells in the prison chapel offers inmates time to bond with like-minded individuals and to find acceptance and support. Religion also provides prisoners with a sense of security and helps prisoners choose prosocial behaviors over violent or maladaptive strategies. Finally, religious services in the prison setting offer an environment that restricts criminal or antisocial behavior, thus allowing inmates a rare chance to feel safe and welcomed. Education while incarcerated
Many prisons offer educational programs, such as vocational skill building, literacy programs, GED certifications, and college courses. These programs offer inmates a chance to improve self-confidence, break up prison life monotony, improve quality of life, and decrease chances of reoffending once back in civilian life. This prosocial support, much like religion, has been associated with better prison behavior (i.e., fewer rule violations) and better mental health. Further, once enrolled in educational programs, prisoners report a change in attitude towards life, improved self-esteem, confidence, and self-awareness and felt that without these programs their anger, frustration, and aggression would increase. However, some research posits that prison-level support systems, such as education programs, provide more social support and thus more prosocial benefits for women than men. This could be because women are relationship-oriented and women's prison environment is less based on coercive power structures.