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 ...

(RNS-AUG08) Prisoners at the vance Unit in Sugarland, Texas celebrate 10 years, graduation and baptisms along with daily life in the Christian Prison Unit served by Innerchange and Prison Fellowship.

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 ...

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 ...

When you work as a chaplain you really get behind the masks that these guys carry. I discovered that there are a lot of guys here who are living with a lot of shame. They carry a ...

Meanwhile, the church endorsed me for other forms of chaplaincy: first in a hospital, then at a prison. My calling to minister to those in prison included a deep-seated belief that no one is beyond ...

When this prison chaplain speaks to incarcerated men, he knows exactly what they're going through.That's because Peter has ...

Muslims, the third-largest faith group in federal prisons, are significantly underrepresented among the chaplaincy, according to a recent... Abdul Muhaymin al-Salim converted to Islam during his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...