The Prisons Are Already Full of Christians

I'll bet $100 against a nickel that this very same judge would never consider letting a black kid caught with a dime bag of pot to attend weekly NA meetings for a year in lieu of jail time.

Especially since NA meetings would actually have a chance of addressing the kid's problems. Unlike the "alternative" this idiotic freakazoid is offering.

Steve Benen:

In southern Alabama, a city judge is allowing those convicted of minor offenses to “work off their sentences in jail and pay a fine; or go to church every Sunday for a year.” Though 56 local churches are participating, the program probably raises some constitutional concerns. (thanks to R.B. for the tip)

"Constitutional concerns?" How about doubt that this pathetic excuse for a jurist knows how to read? Or count?

In 1997, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons statistics on inmate religious preference exposed the utter insanity of expecting religion to curb criminality.

Judeo-Christian Total 83.761% (of the 74731 total responses)

Not unexpected as a result. Note that atheists, being a moderate proportion of the USA population (about 8-16%) are disproportionately less in the prison populations (0.21%).

I'd say the far more effective alternative would be to send offenders to Atheist meetings, where they could learn techniques for resisting the criminal behavior that they apparently learned in church.