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Prison Sports Associations / Committees Northern Ireland Prison Service Sports Association (NIPSSA) Prison Enterprises (HM Prison Enterprises) producing sports products in British jails Product Range (sports equipment, nets, sport shoes, training wear). Includes basketball hoops Prison Service Sports Association, UK (PSSA UK) PSSA All Sports PSSA Men's Basketball PSSA Women's Basketball
Prison Sports Services:
Sports Counseling Services (SCS) Helping prison athletes achieve their dreams Check
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COUNSELING SERVICES (SCS) SITE What is different about SCS is that they offer services to athletes whose athletic goals and dreams have been disrupted by emotional, personal, and/or addiction issues, and have resulted in legal problems and/or incarceration. SCS will offer these services with the intention of enabling players to take a proactive approach to resolving these issues, and getting their lives, and athletic careers, back on track. In pursuit of this objective, SCS a referral network with treatment professionals who provide the following services: -drug/alcohol counseling, mental health counseling and family counseling -personal coaching for
those individuals who wish to pursue, and are talented enough, to pursue a
professional sports career For more information, including a free SCS Service Manual: E-mail Mr. Ernest J. DiStefano at: Studentathletes@aol.com
Strengthtech: Weightlifting in prisons and correctional institutions Weightlifting in prisons: Issues and laws General weightlifting and products range
Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth College: Dartmouth Community Services Prison Project: Dartmouth students can tutor or play basketball with residents of the Windsor Correctional Center, a minimum security correctional facility for males above 16.
Religious Missions (Prison Basketball Ministries): Many religious institutions have organized what they call "Prison Ministries" to preach the Gospel to incarcerated individuals and giving them hope. Some of these groups though, realizing the benefit of sports games, have resorted to forming sports teams, most notably and interestingly in our case, basketball teams, to play against prisoners and use this opportunity to establish rapprochement with the inmates. Such activities are lovingly called "basketball evangelization" although this term also may apply to international tours by religious basketball teams worldwide. In this section, we will cover activities of the Prison ministries in case they involve, amongst their activities, the game of basketball.
Elmbrook Church Sports Ministry Going behind prison walls to compete and to disciple in the context of sports activities, like volleyball, basketball and softball. Teams are formed on a seasonal basis. Prison Basketball Ministry
Saints Prison Ministry Inc. : Athletics: Basketball "Operation Staring Line" has played more than 900 games in 170 correctional institutions in 16 states.
Sports Outreach Prison Ministries: Organizing basketball team visits to Santa Rita County Jail, San Quentin State Prison, Folsom State Prison.
Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Austin, Texas: Prison Ministry Periodically taking trips to the Hutto Unit in Taylor to play basketball with and minister the gospel to inmates.
You-Fed-Me Inc: Mighty Warriors A prison ministry with an athletic ministry including the "Mighty Warriors" basketball team.
Corresponding With Inmates who are basketball fans
Inmates (male and female) in prisons welcome correspondence from the "outside world". Here are some programs facilitating for this activity. Check the inmates' stated interests and activities in prison prior to establishing a correspondence relationship with the individual concerned. Many of them you will be surprised are very much into sports and basketball... naturally. They may be avid fans of the game or even actually practicing basketball behind bars. Most sites we have listed below publish bio, info, photos, specimens of their writings too...
Death Penalty - Dead Men Talking: Prison Penpals Check also main site Death Row Inmate Pen-Pal Request: from the site of Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty CCADP. Check also their main site. Meet
An Inmate Program Inmates (male and female) in USA
prisons you can correspond with.
Please send in your comments to prisonbasketball@yahoo.com
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