Spiritual needs of vulnerable federal inmates unmet during pandemic: chaplains

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Federal prison chaplains say the spiritual needs of inmates have become an unnecessary casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic at a time when offenders are feeling particularly vulnerable and alone.

The Correctional Service of Canada is allowing only emergency in-person visits from chaplains to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Some 180 chaplains representing various faiths work at the correctional service's 43 institutions across Canada, said Troy Lundblad, a staff representative with the United Steelworkers, the union representing chaplains as they negotiate their first collective agreement. Chaplains ensure inmates of all traditions can observe their faith, examine their behaviours and decisions and discover new ways of living, the correctional service says on its website.

The correctional service has put a process in place to ensure inmates have virtual access to spiritual services from chaplains, said service spokeswoman Esther Mailhot.

 

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The Liberal organized crime family pushes this in your face right on the heels of their having vilified the pastor below for doing church in his parking lot, congregation safely shielded in their cars. Can you say media criminals?

Boo-hoo. They should have thought of that before committing a crime and traumatizing victims.

Very slow news day.

I didn't know criminals were so religious

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