Faith on the Yard: Religion, Redemption, and Finding God Behind the Fence. On The Yard, #6

Prison can take away your freedom, control your movement, and separate you from nearly everything familiar. But it cannot decide what you believe. In Faith on the Yard, Michael Good explores the role religion and spirituality play behind prison walls from his perspective as a Muslim who experienced incarceration firsthand. While remaining firm in his belief in Islam, Good objectively examines the presence of Christianity, Judaism, and other religious and spiritual traditions practiced throughout the prison system.
From Salah and Jumu'ah to Ramadan behind the fence, the book explores how Islam can provide structure, discipline, brotherhood, patience, and purpose during incarceration. It also examines prison chaplains, religious services, jailhouse religion, the intersection of faith and prison politics, and the difficult questions surrounding guilt, forgiveness, repentance, and redemption. What happens when faith is tested by a denied appeal, devastating news from home, or years remaining on a sentence? Can someone genuinely discover religion in prison, or is it simply "jailhouse religion"? And when the prison doors finally open, does the faith practiced behind the fence come home with you?Part of the On the Yard series, Faith on the Yard is an honest examination of belief in an environment built around confinement-and one man's understanding that while prison may control the doors, his submission will always belong to Allah.