incarceration
During Second Chance Month, let’s take a second look at who remains in prison
By Cheryl Burke — April 4, 2024
(RNS) — Second Look legislation aims to create a process for courts to reevaluate lengthy prison sentences, particularly for individuals who were incarcerated at a young age.
He made it out of prison. Now he’s helping others do the same.
By Yonat Shimron — July 27, 2023
(RNS) — Reentry is a huge challenge for many formerly incarcerated, who encounter a combination of laws and rules that block them from jobs, housing and voting. Stanley Frankart is there to help.
Once behind bars, a pastor advocates for giving released prisoners a clean slate
By Eleonora Francica — March 29, 2023
(RNS) — Having overcome his own prison record, Seventh-day Adventist pastor Aaron Chancy is lobbying state officials in New York to approve the Clean Slate Act.
Giving while Muslim: How Ramadan philanthropy has changed from 9/11 to COVID-19
By Muhi Khwaja — May 5, 2021
(RNS) — Twenty years after 9/11, American Muslims’ giving priorities have shifted to funding civil rights and social justice movements at home.
Anxiety, loneliness and spiritual isolation characterize life in prison during pandemic
By Lyra Walsh Fuchs — November 10, 2020
NEW YORK (RNS) — Religious practices of all sorts are fixtures of community for those inside — and all have been stymied by the pandemic lockdowns.
In San Diego, Black Muslims are working to expand voting access in jails
By Aysha Khan — October 13, 2020
(RNS) — Pillars of the Community is hiring a team of pretrial inmates to register eligible voters from behind bars. The group’s leaders say it’s part of their faith as Muslims.
Keeping Baha’i prisoners, Iran threatens the entire country’s health
By Winston Nagan — April 16, 2020
(RNS) — Imprisoning people for their religious convictions is bad enough, but persisting with this policy in the face of a public health crisis crosses into new territory of immorality.
First Step Act recognizes that prisoners, too, are made in God’s image
By Heather Rice-Minus — December 14, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The current rules and treatment of prisoners in the federal justice system are an affront to the dignity of men and women made in the image of God.
An end to a form of modern-day slavery
By guest — August 19, 2016
(RNS) The Justice Department’s move to phase out private federal prisons brings a welcome end to a moral and political crisis that has tested the very foundations of our democracy.
Why our Jewish and Christian faiths demand criminal justice reform
By guest — May 5, 2016
(RNS) Improving the administration of justice is not just a matter of politics, but also a moral and ethical obligation.
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