Texans should stop and take stock of capital punishment and really look at what it does and does not accomplish, said Carroll Pickett, a former death row chaplain. Statistics show that capital ...

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 ...

A prisoner who attacked a Jewish Chaplain at Whitemoor high-security prison has admitted that the attack was racially-motivated. The Chaplain was visiting prisoners on 14 September 2025. As he ...

Joseph Gynane, 41, shouted 'Allah Akbar' as he launched the assault on the visiting chaplain at around 2.30pm on September 14 ...

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 ...

The men I met in prison often carried immense burdens — of past choices, of separation from family, of a society that had largely written them off. And now they had to endure the isolation of ...

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 ...