During the late 90's some inmates at the Seward prison wanted to buy computers, out of their own pockets, and install Bible study software on them. Their "plan" was to let interested inmates use the computers, to study, to reason for themselves, and decide if and what they wanted to believe.
In an interview with the then State Chaplain Ensch, he said that he would rather that the inmates were "founded in the faith first". To which I replied "Who's faith? Yours?"
This is the basic failure of all of the "Faith-Based" programs. They're basically nothing more than guided tours through someone's denominational teachings, disguised as some sort of "treatment". They're intolerant of beliefs other than their own, and the "volunteers" presented many varied, often conflicting beliefs.
The church organizations lobby for funding, using their collective political influence to, in effect, extort funding from the State.
The inmates received much coveted "rewards" for participating in the "programs".