Pope Francis asks us: how do we understand the social purpose of punishment? "Fear and resentment can easily lead to viewing punishment in a vindictive and even cruel way, rather than as part of a process of healing and reintegration into society." - Fratelli Tutti

This place is doing really good work with people who are reintegrating into society after having been incarcerated. It's a mercy few are willing to extend and is therefore all the more important. Give them a follow!

How to keep human dignity in view in the work of penal justice? "The problem [of the death penalty] must be viewed in the context of a system of penal justice ever more in line with human dignity and thus, in the end, with God's plan for man and society." - Evangelium Vitae

Joseph House rejoices at the stay of execution for Melissa Lucio, and it prays with the Catholic Church for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide.

"And yet God, who is always merciful even when he punishes, 'put a mark on Cain, lest any who came upon him should kill him' (Gen 4:15). .. Not even a murderer loses his personal dignity, and God himself pledges to guarantee this." - St. Pope Johhn Paul II, Evangelium Vitae

Our very own Pre from Joseph House speaking at the The Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network Inaugural Invitational Conference at Georgetown today! Lumen Christi Institute Georgetown Law and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sponsoring!

"Even when people deny the dignity of others, we must still recognize that their dignity is a gift from God and is not something that is earned or lost through their behavior." — USCCB, A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death

What do a life sentence and the death penalty have in common? Both treat the human person as being beyond God's redemption, as an object to be controlled and not as a person to be restored.

Local Tallahassee news covers Joseph House gardens - where former inmates experience the beauty of nature and cultivate their own earth to grow new life See full story here: wctv.tv/video/2022/05/…

Here's the first part of our rich interview with Fr Dustin Feddon and Dr Sonya Cronin on the Joseph Story and how it inspired Joseph House! Stay tuned for more and RT! youtube.com/watch?v=yg2w6L…

Here is Part 2 of our series on the Joseph Story in Florida's Prisons youtu.be/5TYBsIyIryE