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by bcadmin | Sep 27, 2022 | Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News, prison ministry, prison reform, Prisoners, Prisons | 0 |
In Brazil, like most countries, prison ministry involves visiting and praying with inmates, but as Brazil’s prisons increasingly are treated as moneymakers, the ministry also means advocating for the rights of prisoners.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 14, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas, News, Prison, prison reform | 0 |
Greg Jones has a clear idea when his life changed. It was not in 1998, when he went to prison, or 2007, when he was paroled on a manslaughter charge.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 3, 2021 | Associated Press, Ecuador, News, Pope Francis, prison justice, prison reform, Prisons, St. Peter's Square, Sunday Angelus, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis on Sunday called for “more humane” prison life in the wake of bloodshed in a prison in Ecuador in which 118 people died and dozens more were injured.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 26, 2021 | Bishop James Checchio, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, News, Prison, prison justice, prison ministry, prison reform, Prisoners, Prisons | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 2, 2021 | Archbishop Paul Coakley, Bishop Shelton Fabre, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, President Joe Biden, prison justice, prison reform, USCCB | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2020 | Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Iowa, Iowa Catholic Conference, News, prison justice, prison reform, Prisoners | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 10, 2020 | Bishop William Wack, Bryan Stevenson, capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Church in the US, Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahasse, Just Mercy, lead, News, prison reform | 0 |
Bishop Bill Wack believes the new film Just Mercy “puts a human face” on the crisis facing America’s prison population.
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