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- May 9, 2021
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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.
Bishops support Biden’s racial equity orders related to housing, prisons
- Feb 2, 2021
The chairmen of two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committees welcomed recent executive actions by President Joe Biden to address racial equity in housing and the use of private prisons by the federal government.
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.
Florida bishop says movie ‘puts a human face’ on prison population
- Feb 10, 2020
Bishop Bill Wack believes the new film Just Mercy “puts a human face” on the crisis facing America’s prison population.
Concern for inmates, prison reform is obligatory act of mercy, pope says
- Nov 8, 2019
Visiting the imprisoned is an act of mercy that has implications for all Christians and not just those involved in prison ministry, Pope Francis said.
Rikers Island prison ‘has got to go,’ says New York cardinal
- Sep 20, 2019
New York’s Cardinal Dolan joined with city religious leaders to call for the closing of one of the nation’s most notorious prisons.
Life without parole is not a solution to crime, pope says
- Sep 16, 2019
Sentencing someone to life in prison without the possibility of parole is “not the solution to problems, but a problem to solve,” Pope Francis told Italian prison guards, prison chaplains and officials from the Ministry of Justice.
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.
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