{"id":5488,"date":"2019-11-08T15:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2019-11-08T15:24:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T15:24:09","slug":"gaining-knowledge-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2019\/11\/08\/gaining-knowledge-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaining knowledge in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p>By: Huntre Keip \u201920, Editor in Chief  <\/p>\n<p>Internships grant students invaluable lessons to enhance their futures, but one internship landed an LVC student in prison. <\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Clugston, a senior religion and history double major, served as a prison chaplain intern at the Moose Lake and Willow River Correctional Facilities in Minnesota. On a one to five security scale, the facilities were rated at a level three.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found the internship after an intensive online search for chaplain internships,\u201d Clugston said. \u201cThere are very few that are open to undergraduates, so to have found one, I knew it would be a unique experience where I would also be challenged to grow a lot.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Clugston\u2019s responsibilities included assisting the chaplain by answering inmate requests for spiritual resources, assisting religious volunteers with their services and programs and providing pastoral counseling to inmates.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis internship definitely gave me a huge insight into what a chaplain does in his day-to-day job,\u201d Clugston said.  \u201cI think the experience that I gained there will help me prepare for many of the unique situations and challenges that chaplains encounter.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>During his time as chaplain intern, Clugston was exposed to plenty of experiences, but there are a couple moments that continually stick with him.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI attended a baptism ceremony that prison chaplain facilitated and provided pastoral counseling in the segregation unit which has very enhanced security measures,\u201d he said. \u201cAlso, my favorite story is meeting an inmate who was incarcerated for the past 17 years, earned his GED, a bachelor\u2019s degree and plans on attending seminary while pursuing a master\u2019s degree when he is released in three years.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>These stories motivated Clugston.  After graduation, he plans on pursuing his master\u2019s degree and become a military chaplain.  <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By: Huntre Keip \u201920, Editor in Chief Internships grant students invaluable lessons to enhance their futures, but one internship landed an LVC student in prison. Nathaniel Clugston, a senior religion and history double major, served <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2019\/11\/08\/gaining-knowledge-in-prison\/\" title=\"Gaining knowledge in prison\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}