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Clergy Who Advocate for Prisoners Barred from Prisons and Jails
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2010
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2010, page 10
As described in this month’s cover story, prison and jail chaplains accused of sexual misconduct often resign, retire, are fired or are sometimes prosecuted. In other cases, though, well-meaning clergy members who seek to help prisoners have been locked out of jails and prisons by staff who don’t appreciate their ...
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