Louisiana State Penitentiary Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Programs for fathers=== Angola has two programs for fathers who are incarcerated at Angola. Returning Hearts is an event where prisoners may spend up to eight hours with their children in a [[Carnival]]-like celebration. Returning began in 2005; by 2010 a total of 2,500 prisoners had participated in the program. Malachi Dads is a year-long program that uses the Christian Bible as the basis of teaching how to improve a prisoner's parenting skills. Malachi began in 2007; as of 2010 it had 119 men participating.<ref>Jervis, Rick. "[https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-06-17-prison-dads_N.htm Prison dads learn meaning of 'father']." ''[[USA Today]]''. June 18, 2010. Retrieved on February 3, 2011.</ref> It is based on [[Book of Malachi|Malachi]] 4:6, "He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers ..." Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page