WDC Media PR - Free Faith-Based Television Gaining Ground in U.S. Prisons

A Trinity Broadcasting Network action created to appulse the nation’s aerial backsliding ante is accepting in acceptance with correctional officials. Launched in 2007, TBN Second Chance is a faith-based affairs advised to accord inmates a additional adventitious to accomplish acceptable choices by accouterment positive, life-affirming television programming about the clock. The affairs is absolutely adjourned by TBN, the better faith-based arrangement in the world, and provides up to four altered channels for assorted bedfellow populations—along with the accessories all-important to accept them—completely chargeless of allegation to correctional and antidotal facilities.

Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s better clandestine bastille operator, is one of a growing account of agog participants in the TBN Second Chance initiative. CCA is in the action of agreement Second Chance programming into all 65 of its state, federal and adolescent facilities, a move that will appulse about 75,000 prisoners above nineteen states and the District of Columbia.

In accession to abundant alone jails, prisons and adolescent accessories all over the U.S., TBN Second Chance has accomplished agreements with admiral in Texas and Florida to action Second Chance programming in all of their accompaniment correctional facilities. According to Alex Taylor of the Florida Department of Corrections, the timing couldn’t be better. “At a time if bread-and-butter limitations acquiesce for beneath affairs opportunities for inmates, the availability of 24 hour letters of achievement is an advance to all who plan in corrections,” he said.

Following success with TBN Second Chance in a pilot program, South Dakota bastille admiral accept adumbrated they will now convention the affairs in all of their accompaniment facilities, while correctional admiral in Ohio, Mississippi and South Carolina are in the action of starting up their own Second Chance pilot programs.

Through Second Chance, correctional accessories can opt to accept up to four of TBN’s faith-based channels—including TBN, the nation’s a lot of accepted and a lot of requested acceptance channel; The Church Channel, which affectedness abbey casework and teaching programs from altered denominations; TBN Enlace USA, which offers acceptance programs from Latin American countries and the U.S., all in Spanish; and JCTV, the alone faith-based ball approach in the U.S. for 13-29 year-olds.

After JCTV was installed at his clandestine adolescent ability in Texas, Executive Director Dan Ytuarte said the aftereffect was actual and noticeable. “Wow! What a accompaniment to our absolute faith-based initiative…JCTV has opened abounding doors…to change the lives of our adolescent generation.”

All four TBN Second Chance channels can be accustomed with a Ku casting digital bowl and adapted receivers, which are provided, installed and maintained chargeless of allegation by TBN. But now, through new partnerships with Buford Satellite Systems and Correctional Cable TV—the nation’s two better providers of correctional cable—prisons and jails already application their casework can opt to accept up to four TBN Second Chance channels, which the companies accept agreed to accommodate into absolute approach lineups chargeless of charge.

“We are accustomed to accept these assorted opportunities to action the Second Chance affairs to admirers who can absolutely benefit,” said Amy Fihn, Director of TBN Second Chance, “it’s a different apparatus for prisoners, one that can advice accompany them to a convalescent akin emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. Our ambition is not alone to accommodate advice for inmates now, but to adapt them for approaching success if a lot of of them will re-enter society.”

More advice on the TBN Second Chance affairs is accessible at www.TBNSecondChance.org.

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