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MA: DOC reverses itself on firing chaplains

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

God?s work on the block By Kevin Cullen Globe Columnist / November 26, 2009 That?s no joke. Thirty-two of them do it every day, into all of the prisons in Massachusetts. But two weeks ago, Mike Grunko, the president of Local 509 of the Service Employees International Union, got a phone call from the Department of Correction. ?They said they were going to lay off 19 of the 32 chaplains, effective the end of December,?? Grunko said. You know the state budget crisis is really bad when they start whacking people who subcontract for God. ?I don?t think it?s a very good idea,?? said Mike Grunko. ?These chaplains do a very good job at keeping people calm, at giving them hope, at changing lives for the better. They are an important presence not just for the inmates, but for the people who work at the prisons, too...continue to full post

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