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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NGO’s programs in Brazil, Kenya produce masks to help contain COVID-19
- Jul 14, 2020
With COVID-19 contagions climbing in several countries around the world, an Italian NGO with ties to the Catholic Church has implemented projects for the mass production of masks to help the most vulnerable populations.
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