When Ravenna’s Bill Barber accepted a 2024 Voice of Hope Award last May from Diocese of Youngstown’s Catholic Charities, he did so on behalf of all the diocesan Prison and Jail Ministry Volunteers.

For years, ministers and volunteers have taken faith behind the walls of the Tulsa County Jail. News On 6 has learned the ...

In the wake of the Pope’s prison visit Dec. 26, the Register spoke with Catholic prison-ministry workers around the United States about their work and about the Jubilee Year. Las Cruces Bishop Peter ...

SHERRY VAN ARSDALL | THE GOSHEN NEWSAT LEFT, Doug Cuney, and his friend and employer, Justin Moyer, of Moyer Electric Inc. ELKHART — Two years ago, Doug Cuney stood in the middle of his jail cell, ...

“God bless you guys,” said one mother as she and children left, with toys in tow. That was a familiar refrain on Saturday at the Henderson County Detention Center, as the Blue Ridge Prison and Jail ...

Presenters: Gregory Boyle, S.J., Maureen Clark, C.S.J., and respondents Carl Carbonic, Janet Connors, Leo Vercollone This conference focused on current issues and concerns in prison ministry, and the ...

Five years ago I wrote a Lenten meditation, “Jesus the Prisoner,” (America, March 30-April 6, 2009). I was interested in the theme because I was then reading a book written by Michael Kennedy S.J., ...

Chaplain Michael Hamm compares his life to a James Bond movie. To be precise, he says he’s lived enough to fill five action films. The 70-year-old Polk County resident is a war veteran, a businessman, ...

Bob Durrett, 76, who lives in Ruidoso, remembers the day in 1995 that he decided to start volunteering for Kairos Prison Ministry of New Mexico. He attended the closing of a Kairos Weekend event at a ...

A prison ministry program, run by former Nixon aide Charles Colson to reform Texas inmates, is leading some critics to question the legality of religion in state prisons and the exclusion of ...