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Demolition of old Baltimore jail is nearly complete. The state is now planning what will come next. capitalgazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from capitalgazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Highlights In three weeks, jails have contact with as many people as prisons do in an entire year. Each year, U.S. jails process an estimated 12 million admissions and releases. That translates into 34,000 people released from jails each day and 230,000 released each week. More than two-thirds (70%) of jail inmates were held for felony charges. Inmates in local jails were less likely to die than were adults in the adjusted U.S. resident population (same with prisons). Local jail authorities supervised 38,700 persons in programs outside of jail. From 2008 to 2019, the number of persons supervised outside of jail declined 36%, the number of weekenders declined 47%, and the number of confined inmates declined 6%. ....
Prison is not the kind of place that you would expect anyone to associate with beauty. That’s why it’s so surprising to hear Fr. Chuck Canterna describe the work he does with inmates in prison: “When people come to me and talk about how horrible it must be to work in prisons, I just say, ‘Oh man, you don’t know.’ It’s a beautiful ministry. It is absolutely beautiful.” Of course, it’s not that Fr. Chuck hasn’t witnessed the pain as well as the guilt and shame that inmates feel over the choices they have made. Many are unable to forgive themselves. Being identified as just another “prison number” makes them feel even less worthy of any kindness or dignity. Many are rejected by their families and receive no visits or letters while behind bars. They suffer from broken marriages and wounded relationships. They may also suffer knowing the pain they have brought to their victims, their victims’ families, and their own families. And so they cry out to God fo ....
Comment | Posted Feb 16, 2021 Fr. Charles “Chuck” Canterna began volunteering in the Baltimore prisons in 1980 and was named chaplain of the Baltimore City Jail and Maryland Penitentiary in 1982. Patrick McGovern, a freelance writer from New York City, spoke to him recently about what it’s like to minister to the inmates there. More » The Word Among Us Archives ....