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Budget cuts would separate church from state (prisons): Chaplains on the chopping block

I was forwarded an email from our friend Emmett Solomons, the former head chaplain at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice who now runs the Restorative Justice Ministries Network, sounding the alarm about the House and Senate budgets both zeroing out all funding for TDCJ chaplains. Here are some notable excerpts:Here is the ugly reality facing Texas:  1) The primary budget cutters do not value what Chaplains do.  They have cut the entire department.  These trained professionals manage the religious programs at each Texas Prison.  2) If they are cut, the program will have to be managed by a correctional officer or a secretary. (They will be pulled from their other duties -- little savings, huh!)  3) Chaplains also provide "Pastoral Care" for everyone in the institution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 29, 2011 (boomark / email).