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  • Restorative justice film offers insights into criminal, societal behavior

    Restorative justice film offers insights into criminal, societal behavior

    • Mar 28, 2021

    “The Prison Within” had its premiere last year in California at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, where it won the award for best social justice documentary.

    By Mark Pattison
  • Bishop: Reports of women prisoners being abused are ‘disgusting, shameful’

    Bishop: Reports of women prisoners being abused are ‘disgusting, shameful’

    • Feb 26, 2021

    The women housed at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, the only women’s prison in the state of New Jersey, seem to have the cards stacked against them.

    By Catholic News Service
  • As pandemic spreads in Brazil’s prisons, inmates complain of torture

    As pandemic spreads in Brazil’s prisons, inmates complain of torture

    • Jan 30, 2021

    After Brazil’s prisons imposed restrictive measures to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, complaints of torture in correctional facilities increased by 70 percent, according to the nation’s bishops.

    By Eduardo Campos Lima
  • Texas prisons, halfway houses grow more restricted under pandemic measures

    Texas prisons, halfway houses grow more restricted under pandemic measures

    • Nov 15, 2020

    Many impacted by pandemic restrictions may feel imprisoned, but Texas prisons and halfway houses are truly locked down as COVID-19-related deaths have risen.

    By Jo Ann Zuñiga
  • Speaker: Incarceration ‘a central moral challenge of our time’

    Speaker: Incarceration ‘a central moral challenge of our time’

    • Nov 1, 2020

    Incarceration is “a central moral challenge of our time,” said Danielle Sered, the founding director of the restorative justice organization Common Justice.

    By Mark Pattison
  • Sister Roulet, women’s prison ministry pioneer, dies at 89

    Sister Roulet, women’s prison ministry pioneer, dies at 89

    • Aug 30, 2020

    Sister Elaine Roulet, a Sister of St. Joseph of Brentwood who was an acknowledged pioneer in women’s prison ministry, died Aug. 13 of heart failure at the order’s Stella Maris Convent in Queens. She was 89 and had been in religious life for 71 years.

    By Catholic News Service
  • Amid virus lockdowns, prison ministry groups had to adapt

    Amid virus lockdowns, prison ministry groups had to adapt

    • Aug 30, 2020

    Prison chaplains are seeking new methods of ministry during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    By Gary Fields
  • Prisons as pandemic super-spreaders: Latin American church raises alarm

    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.

    By Eduardo Campos Lima, CNS
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