Convicted drug dealer Miguel Chavez faces life in prison, a sentence made easier by the chaplains at the Cass County Jail. "We come to jail and we find ourselves in a hole," Chavez said. "Then these ...

NASHVILLE, N.C. -- Block B's inmates at the Nash Correctional Institution bide their time playing cards or watching two TVs covered by metal grates. They also get religion, nurtured by prison chaplain ...

Muslims, the third-largest faith group in federal prisons, are significantly underrepresented among the chaplaincy, according to a recent... Abdul Muhaymin al-Salim converted to Islam during his ...

Stepping inside the chapel at the R.J. Donovan Correctional Facility, Aaron Buttery was transformed. As the often-forgotten, neglected and reviled men shuffled to worship in San Diego’s only state ...

A former Florida prisons chaplain says he was wrongly fired because he doesn't believe women should provide ministry to men.

Pope Francis decided to open for the first time in history a Holy Door in the Italian prison of Rebibbia during the Jubilee of Hope, a gesture that the prisoners welcomed as a sign of mercy, closeness ...

A federal prison chaplain accused of discriminating against non-Catholic believers has claimed he should be protected from a lawsuit because he is entitled to qualified immunity. Michael Onuh, the ...

NASHVILLE, N.C. -- The inmates in Block B at the Nash Correctional Institution bide their time playing cards or watching two television sets covered by metal grates. They also get religion, nurtured ...

Wearing a protective vest, I stood on a prison compound, my utility belt weighed down with handcuffs, pepper spray and a radio equipped with a body alarm. This was my required uniform as a chaplain in ...

Abdul Muhaymin al-Salim converted to Islam during his incarceration on drug charges at a federal prison in South Carolina from 2004 to 2014. In his first year there, the 49-year-old remembers a Muslim ...

Abdul Muhaymin al-Salim converted to Islam during his incarceration on drug charges at a federal prison in South Carolina from 2004 to 2014. In his first year there, the 49-year-old remembers a Muslim ...