Boston cardinal: Getting COVID vaccine 'morally correct thing to do'
- Jan 20, 2021
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Prisons as pandemic super-spreaders: Latin American church raises alarm
- Aug 13, 2020
Ignoring early warnings and pleas from bishops’ commissions for prison ministry, countries across Latin America are seeing rising COVID-19 infection rates and deaths among inmates in their generally overcrowded prisons.
Iowans who have completed sentence for felony conviction can now vote
- Aug 13, 2020
More than 40,000 people in Iowa who have completed sentences for felony convictions have regained the right to vote and run for office because of an executive order signed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Catholic leaders decry prisoners’ exposure to COVID-19 during pandemic
- May 24, 2020
A May 19 statement by 14 Catholic leaders, including five bishops, decried the danger people in prison are exposed to during the coronavirus pandemic.
New York religious leaders endorse bill to end solitary confinement
- May 14, 2019
Solitary confinement is in widespread use in prisons across the United States and, in New York state alone, more than 3,000 inmates are isolated in 6-by-10 cells for over 23 hours a day.
Solitary confinement in U.S. prisons qualifies today as torture
- Apr 20, 2019
Religious groups including the U.S. bishops argue that long-term solitary confinement in prison is a form of torture.
Criminal justice reform: First Step Act today, what steps tomorrow?
- Dec 23, 2018
The First Step Act is now law. It took about five years of effort to put it together in such a way that a broad bipartisan coalition in both houses of Congress could vote for it, but that resulted in a narrow bill that left out anything that could have gutted the effort.
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