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 ...

Behind a closed chapel office door inside a federal women’s prison in California, a chaplain forced inmates seeking his spiritual guidance to have sex with him, exploiting their faith and their ...

For one year I had the privilege to serve as the assistant Catholic chaplain at California State Prison-Sacramento, a maximum-security prison, through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. At first, I struggled ...

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 ...

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Florida’s state prisons agency is being sued in federal court by a former prison chaplain who said he was discriminated against when he was fired for not wanting to train and oversee a female chaplain ...

When Sister Thomasette Pittari decided to be a nun nearly 40 years ago, she had no idea that one day she would be serving as a prison chaplain. But it was nearly 10 years ago now that Sister Pittari, ...

“Sometimes guys just want to come down and talk about whatever is on their mind,” said Lamb, who has been at the Minnesota Correctional Facility — St. Cloud for three years. Prison chaplain Mike Lamb ...