I’m involved in a program evaluation for a prison-based theological training program called The Urban Ministry Institute, or TUMI.
I’ve collected over 40 hours of interview data from 141 justice involved men and women and survey data from 157. One of the questions I asked during interviews and on the survey was, “tell us about the kind of person you were before you came to prison and how you are different now that you’re a TUMI participant.”
So far, just based on the analysis of the qualitative data from the surveys, I’ve determined that TUMI has truly, and I quote, “changed what I’m living for.”
