Resources – Prison Ministries

 

Recommended Catholic Material

1. Catechism Resources for Volunteers to use in Prison Ministry
https://divinemercyjailministry.com/
https://divinemercyprisonministry.com/

2. U.S. Dept. of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons: Technical Reference, Inmate Religious Beliefs and Practices
Read Document

3. Catholic Prison Ministries Coalition
https://www.catholicprisonministries.org/

4. Dismas Ministries
https://dismasministry.org/

5. Knights of Malta prison ministry
https://www.orderofmaltafederal.org/prison-ministry

6. How to help a person in prison as Mother Teresa did for Jim Wahlberg

7. Pope Francis Raises Concerns about Situation in Prisons

Pope Francis Raises Concerns About Situation in Prisons

8. Getting started
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/faith-behind-bars

9. Resources for Catechesis: https://divinemercyprisonministry.com/
https://divinemercyjailministry.com/

10. Catholic Bibles for Prisoners: Paulist Evangelization Ministries
https://www.pemdc.org/freeresources/prison-ministry/prison-ministry-services/

Bibles for Inmates
https://dismasministry.org/inmate-services-2/

11. Patron Saints of Prisoners
https://catholicsaints.info/patrons-of-prisoners/

12. The Apostle of Prisons
https://theonetruefaith-faith.blogspot.com/2011/05/apostle-of-prisons.html

13. Religious Order for female ex-cons

14. Saints who were Addicts
https://catholicinrecovery.com/patrons-and-saints-to-pray-to-for-addiction-recovery/

15.Catholic Addiction Recovery
https://www.calixsociety.org/

16. Holy Encounters in Prison
https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/encountering-god-in-prison-and-on-retreat/

17. Visiting the Imprisoned is a Corporal Work of Mercy
https://thecatholicspirit.com/special-sections/year-of-mercy/visit-the-imprisoned/

18. International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care
https://iccppc.org/

19. Ministering to Incarcerated Youth
https://homeboyindustries.org/our-story/father-greg/
https://lifeteen.com/

20. North Carolina website links
Yokefellows Prison Ministry
https://yokefellowprisonministry.org/

Proverbs 226
https://proverbs226.org/#Welcome

North Carolina Department of Corrections Facilities
https://www.ncdps.gov/adult-corrections/prisons/prison-facilities

21.Other States

Virginia: Diocese of Richmond
https://richmonddiocese.org/office/osm/

West Virginia: Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston
https://dwc.org/diocese/ministries/department-of-social-ministries/prison-ministry/

Georgia: Archdiocese of Atlanta
https://archatl.com/ministries-services/prison-and-jail-ministry/

Florida
https://www.miamiarch.org/CatholicDiocese.php?op=Detention

California
https://www.scd.org/sites/default/files/2017-06/TrainingManual.final_.pdf

New York
https://www.thriveforlife.org/

22.Transitional Programs In State
Transitional Programs Out of State

23.Families of Incarcerated Persons Resources
Proverbs 226
https://proverbs226.org/#Welcome

Prison Fellowship International; assisting prisoners and their families
https://pfi.org/

24. Justice for the Incarcerated
The Innocence Project
https://www.innocenceproject.org/about/

North Carolina Listing of Reentry Resources
https://www.ncdps.gov/our-organization/adult-correction/prisons/transition-services/county-reentry-resource-information

Outrageous Justince
https://www.prisonfellowship.org/about/justicereform/landing-pages/outrageous-justice/

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
http://www.ncadp.org/

North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
https://nccadp.org/

North Carolina Coalition for a Moratorium
http://www.ncmoratorium.org/

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