New York: Sister Helen Prejean, a Catholic nun serving in the United States, has become the voice of prison inmates who are threatened with disease in the wake of a coronary epidemic. Eighty-year-old Sister Prejean, who has struggled with euthanasia all her life, has been confined to Louisiana because of restrictions on proliferation of coronation, but still remains the voice of prison inmates by phone and other contacts.
Sister told Catholic media, Crux, that although the current situation requires social distance to prevent the spread of the disease, the real social gap is that America has treated those who have been incarcerated in the past. She added that in the states of New York to California, at least in the name of humanity, plans for the release of elderly and sick prisoners must be put under pressure from governors and attorney generals.
Sister noted that in the absence of proper health care, inmates in the Jail are at greater risk of disease than ever before. Sister said that it was necessary to break the barriers created by prison inmates and that Catholic bishops, along with Pope Francis, should raise their voices for prisoners. Sister Helen Prejean is a member of the New Orleans-based St. Joseph Congregation.
