Investigation of the Place of Religious Programs in the Correctional and Educative Approach of the Prisons Organization

Correctional and educative approach towards prisoners is one of the important issues of high significance in policy making regrading prisons. In this paper, an attempt has been made to investigate the place of religious programs of the country's Prisons and Security and Corrective Measures Organization and the effect of these programs on the education and correction of prisoners. The present paper is analytical-descriptive and the subject is studied using the library method. The findings of the paper indicate that the country's Prisons and Security and Corrective Measures Organization has paid attention to religious programs in its correctional approach towards prisoners. According to the regulations of the Prisons Organization, various religious programs are envisaged in order to purify and cultivate the soul and raise the faith and beliefs of the prisoners and keep them from committing crimes. The country's Prisons and Security and Corrective Measures Organization is attempting to affect prisoners through religious education, correction of prisoners' attitudes towards existence, human beings, and self, and educative trainings such as self-control training of criminals. To achieve such a goal, it is necessary for the country's Prisons and Security and Corrective Measures Organization to use indirect methods and benefit from the views of experts and criminologists in this regard.