Prison Fellowship Ministries has utilized two models for their TUMI programs.  In Florida, access has been given to students to make TUMI their “job,” giving them the ability to work on TUMI five days a week.  In other locations, time/space issues have made it possible to offer classes only one day per week.  This table summarizes the alternatives in each situation.  These examples may be useful in adapting other scenarios in prisons.

 

Program Element	Once/week, four-years	Five days/week, two years
Capstone Curriculum	Nine weeks per module for four modules, then a break for PFM pre-release curriculum	Two Capstone courses taught over 10 weeks, then a break for other PF courses
Pre-release curriculum	After 36 weeks of Capstone sessions, four weeks of pre-release curriculum is taught	None
Other courses (e.g. Prison Fellowship standardized list of curriculum)	None	After 10 weeks of Capstone, a four-week PF course is offered on seven (7) occasions
Worship Service Praxis (click here for details)	None	Using TUMI’s Annual, students prepare and conduct weekly worship service to earns six (6) additional TUMI credit hours in Christian Ministry
Assumed class size	30	50 (could be 25-50, but 50 assumed here)
Estimated cost per student through graduation (does not include staffing)	$1,612	$1,255
Classroom hours per week	3	21

 

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Please direct any questions to our Incarceration Ministries Specialist, Cathy Allsman.