Make special efforts to provide sacraments to inmates in state prisons and county jails. Assess their individual and parish outreach and service to victims of crime, to prisoners, to prisoners families and to the correctional officers who work in state prisons and county jails. Make individual or parish efforts to visit or write letters to prisoners. The state employs chaplains at each state prison. They can be contacted for guidance in how to coordinate such efforts in ways that ensure the safety of the volunteers.
Parishes can provide support groups for correctional officers and their families.
Individual Catholics can look for ways to provide ex-offenders with access to housing and jobs. Despite the need in other cities across the state, there is no similar program. Helping to create such a program would be a great service that a group of Catholic or ecumenical churches could provide. You must have Adobe Acrobat reader software in order to read the bills linked to the state's website. Requires health insurance policies to cover contraceptive articles and services.