Editing Chaplain (section)

===Prison===
[[File:Rabbi Philip Alstat.jpg|thumb|[[Rabbi]] [[Philip R. Alstat]], {{circa|1920}}, Jewish chaplain for "[[The Tombs]]" – the Manhattan Correctional Facility – for thirty years.|upright]]
Prison chaplains can be a "safety valve, through listening and pro-social intervention" in potentially explosive situations.<ref name="Drum">{{cite web |url=http://www.preciousheart.net/chaplaincy/Drum_Professional_Chaplain_2007.pdf |title=Professional Correctional Chaplains: Fact and Fiction |author= Vance L. Drum |date=August 13, 2007 |page= 11}}</ref> They also reduce recidivism by linking offenders to positive community resources, and in the work they do to help offenders change their hearts, minds and directions.<ref name="Drum"/>

Rabbi [[Philip R. Alstat]] (1891–1976), who—in addition to work as a chaplain in New York hospitals and senior citizen facilities—served for three decades as the Jewish chaplain for "[[The Tombs]]", the Manhattan Detention Facility, once described his service as follows: "My goals are the same as those of the prison authorities—to make better human beings. The only difference is that their means are discipline, security, and iron bars.
Mine are the spiritual ministrations that operate with the mind and the heart."<ref>Edward Fiske, ''New York Times, ''City Prison Chaplains' Load is Heavy, October 26, 1970.</ref>

In Canada in 2013, a $2-million contract for chaplaincy services for federal prisons was awarded to Kairos Pneuma Chaplaincy Inc., a company newly formed by five current and former federal prison chaplains.<ref name = cohen2013>{{cite news|url= https://nationalpost.com/holy-post/federal-government-awards-2-million-contract-for-prison-religious-counselling-to-private-company|title=Federal government awards $2-million contract for prison religious counselling to private company|first=Tobi|last= Cohen|date=November 11, 2013 |website= National Post|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140725230629/http://life.nationalpost.com/2013/11/11/federal-government-awards-2-million-contract-for-prison-religious-counselling-to-private-company/|archive-date=July 25, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sabbath-road.blogspot.ca/2013/07/preparing-for-wild-goose-ride.html|website=Sabbath Road|first=Lloyd |last = Bruce |date=2013-07-31|title = Preparing for a Wild Goose Ride... }}</ref> About "2,500 volunteers, many of them of minority faiths, would also continue providing services."<ref name = cohen2013/> There has however, been very little research looking at the role of chaplains and volunteers working within correctional facilities.