Trailer for the documentary Faith in the Big House.
Faith in the Big House takes us inside the workings of an evangelical Christian prison retreat, a new fixture in America's lock-ups. Prison ministries aim to harvest souls for Christ, and claim to reduce the number of inmates who end up right back in lock-up after release.
On a sprawling maximum security prison farm outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana, half a dozen prisoners are about to be immersed for three days in an "encounter with Christ."
Will a rock guitarist, a gang banger from New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward, a self-styled prison theologian, a pedophile turned choir director, and a Muslim ex-football star encounter the possibility for redemption? Or will the experience do little to change these men in the long haul and fail to keep them from returning to prison?