To apply for permission to start TUMI in a prison, please submit this application.

Because of Prison Fellowship’s years of TUMI experience in prisons, we will consult with Prison Fellowship every time we receive an inquiry to start TUMI in a state or federal prison. We will make the final determination about acceptance, but Prison Fellowship’s counsel will be important in each decision.

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

All TUMI prison sites must be operated consistent with your prison ministry’s culture, vision, and operating procedures while adhering to the requirements of The Urban Ministry Institute. It is the task of your prison ministry to find and release leaders, while it is TUMI’s job to resource your prison ministry to carry out this work (we like to say “you can do it, we can help”). This document "Lessons Learned", will help you lead your site in this endeavor, equipping God called men and women for the work of ministry in the prison He has led you to.

Receiving Ex-Inmates as Transfer Students

We are training inmates to be church leaders. Many of them will want to continue their TUMI training upon release from prison and may want to transfer to your satellite (outside prison, upon their release). If you wish to admit transfer students from TUMI prison sites, see the following:

• Transfer Guidelines

TUMI in County Jails

We do not require a separate application if you want to extend your TUMI site into your county jail system. Your status as an active TUMI site gives you freedom to launch classes among county jail inmates. Because most jail inmates are incarcerated for a short period of time, you should be prepared to receive them in your classes outside the jail, upon their release.