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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.

By Christopher White
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.

By Cindy Wooden
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.

By Christopher White

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.

By Cindy Wooden
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.

By Mike Matvey
People of faith seen as key to creating more humane correctional system
- Apr 2, 2019
Prisons should be places where punishment is the absence of freedom and community, but where “everything else models life on the outside to every degree possible” and prisoners are treated with dignity, according to the director of the Oregon Department of Corrections.

By Katie Scott

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