Dressed in white vestments to commemorate the feast of St. Joseph March 19, the pope expressed his closeness to prisoners “who suffer so much in this moment of uncertainty and pain.”
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At Mass, Pope Francis offers special prayers for prisoners
Pope Francis continues to celebrate daily Mass which is livestreamed because of the coronavirus crisis.
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Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work
Taken as a whole, the documents give the most significant description yet of how the mass detention camps work in the words of the Chinese government itself.
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The real-life Philadelphia gangsters who inspired ‘The Irishman’
We love our movies about wiseguys. But what happens when you live and work down the street from them?
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Pope Francis: Life without parole is not a solution to crime
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.
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Brazil has one of the most violent prison systems in the world. Can the Catholic Church help?
Deadly riots regularly occur in the third-largest prison system in the world, reports Eduardo Campos Lima, and Brazilian authorities are restricting the practice of religion rather than address overcrowding, gang activity and other problems.
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A Conversation on Immigration, Education and Incarceration | The Church in America
The Church in America Initiative focuses on the future of the Catholic Church in the United States, with particular emphasis on the challenges facing Latino communities in the U.S., especially in the areas of education, immigration and incarceration.
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For prison inmates, health care comes slowly and unpredictably
The paramount concern of all prisons is safety. This is understandable, but it still seems unfair when security eclipses the health and well-being of inmates, writes John T. Booth.
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New York religious leaders endorse bill to end solitary confinement
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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Solitary Confinement in U.S. prisons qualifies today as torture
It brings into sharp focus that, while the methods have changed over the past 2,000 years, torture remains part of prison life.