Pope Francis decided to open for the first time in history a Holy Door in the Italian prison of Rebibbia during the Jubilee of Hope, a gesture that the prisoners welcomed as a sign of mercy, closeness ...

Convicted drug dealer Miguel Chavez faces life in prison, a sentence made easier by the chaplains at the Cass County Jail. "We come to jail and we find ourselves in a hole," Chavez said. "Then these ...

Abdul Muhaymin al-Salim converted to Islam during his incarceration on drug charges at a federal prison in South Carolina from 2004 to 2014. In his first year there, the 49-year-old remembers a Muslim ...

When Lyn Turner received notice she had been awarded an OAM, she thought it was a scam. The volunteer prison chaplain has now ...

NASHVILLE, N.C. -- Block B's inmates at the Nash Correctional Institution bide their time playing cards or watching two TVs covered by metal grates. They also get religion, nurtured by prison chaplain ...

The most difficult aspect of being a full-time chaplain in any modern institution is the role’s liminality. In theory, chaplains’ most essential contribution is their procedural separation: the ...

Stepping inside the chapel at the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility, Aaron Buttery was transformed. As the often-forgotten, neglected and reviled men shuffled to worship in San Diego’s only state ...

A California rabbi who rejects completely the existing outlook on crime which “puts men in prisons instead of hospitals.” has resigned as Jewish chaplain at San Quentin, Folsom and Alcatraz prisons.

OLYMPIA -- Religious leaders from around the state are upset at the state's decision to eliminate one-third of the prison chaplains from a system that is already understaffed according to some federal ...

URGENT ACTION to reform the Irish prison system has been called for, following a European human rights report which found degrading, inhumane and unsafe conditions in prisons. Prison chaplains ...

Reverend Michael Angley Ogwuche is the National Director for Chaplaincy (England and Wales) for New Testament Church of God. He is also an Ordained minister serving on the Steering Committee of the ...