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Brazil’s bishops document increasing ill-treatment in prisons during pandemic
The Catholic bishops of Brazil are decrying worsening conditions and alleged torture in the country’s prisons during the pandemic, as... Read more
Catholic bishop urges UK officials to protect prisoners from coronavirus
As Covid-19 cases have been on the rise among the incarcerated, Bishop Richard Moth of Arundel and Brighton has called... Read more
More funding needed to deliver real reform in prisons, Senate committee hears
More funding for prisons is essential to properly implement criminal justice reform, the director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP)... Read more
'Heat is a human right'- Power restored to Brooklyn jail after week without heat and lights
Power and heat were restored Sunday to a federal detention center that had been without electricity and mostly unheated for... Read more
Pope invites prisoners to lunch, they break free instead
They were supposed to be having lunch with Pope Francis. Read more
After deadly prison riot in Mexico, archbishop asks for prayers
Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera López of Monterrey has asked the entire community to unite in prayer in response to the riot... Read more
