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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.
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.
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 coalition seeks to pull together church’s prison ministry efforts
- May 23, 2020
There are more than 30 Catholic organizations providing some kind of prison ministry in the United States. One reason is because the need is so great, with a prison population estimated at about 2.3 million by the Prison Policy Initiative.
COVID-19 crisis delays probe of former priest’s prison death
- May 5, 2020
The investigation into the prison death of a southern Illinois priest shortly after he began serving a nine-year sentence for child pornography and drug possession has been delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic, a county coroner said.
Canadian priest volunteers to be incarcerated rather than leave inmates
- Apr 12, 2020
With the federal prison system shutting down all visits, a Catholic priest has volunteered to be incarcerated rather than leave inmates without spiritual care.
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