Prisons Use Cult Tactics to Brainwash Inmates Into Religion

Atheism, agnosticism, and secular humanism were not accepted as rehabilitative ideologies by the Villa's counselors. McKibben says they considered her refusal to acknowledge a higher power as symptomatic of "the alcoholic mind." As a result, McKibben lived in terror of being sent back to jail. "There was a lot of fear, because if you do one thing wrong, you're back in jail," she explained. "If you don't like the program they send you to, then the other option is jail."