Prisons

A United Nations tribunal for the former Yugoslavia found Mr. Karadzic guilty of war crimes and sentenced him to 40 years in prison. Source: Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb, Is Convicted of Genocide

Spain’s arrests of two puppeteers are the latest in a string of prosecutions fueling a debate on whether freedom of speech is under threat in Europe. Source: Crackdowns on Free Speech Rise Across a Europe Wary of Terror - The New York Times

An exhibit at LA's Skirball Cultural Center features photos that three photographers — Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams and Toyo Miyatake — took at the Manzanar internment camp. Source: Photos: 3 Very Different Views Of Japanese Internment

"We have to make sure that our men and women who are coming out of prison have welcoming and affirming communities to come to, where they can be judged by the content of their character and not one mistake that they made in their past," says Bishop Darren...

"I'm living on the fact that somebody cared for me when I got out. The guys who got out before me helped me when I got out. People who are doing this work helped me, so I'm bound to reciprocate." More → Source: Bishop Darren Ferguson Extended Conversation...

Raphael Hawaweeny, an Eastern Orthodox priest from Syria, built churches, fought for his faith and sometimes got arrested. Source: A Centennial Celebration for Brooklyn’s Only Saint - The New York Times

Priests and historians are battling over how best to memorialize the site of a historic Orthodox monastery used as a Soviet prison camp. Source: A Tug of War Over Gulag History in Russia’s North - The New York Times

Life as a chaplain for the Oregon Department of Corrections Source: How Do People Find Forgiveness When They've Been Sent to Prison?

The US has more people in prison than any other country in the world, and a disproportionate number of them are African Americans; and faith groups like Urban Village Church in Chicago are reaching out and welcoming transgender individuals More → Source...

An appellate court had secretly commuted the death sentences of four men, dropped charges against some and reduced sentences against many others. Source: Afghan Panel to Call for Retrial in Death of Farkhunda, a Female Scholar - The New York Times