Louisiana on Lockdown
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<p>The report, <a href="http://www.solitarywatch.org/louisianaonlockdown"><strong><em>LOUISIANA ON LOCKDOWN</em></strong></a><strong><em>: </em></strong><em>A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana State Prisons, With Testimony From the People Who Live It, </em>is published by <strong>Solitary Watch, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans. </strong>More than two years in the making, it is based primarily on a survey completed by 709 people in solitary in all nine of Louisiana’s prisons, the largest ever survey of people living in solitary</p>
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The report, LOUISIANA ON LOCKDOWN: A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement in Louisiana State Prisons, With Testimony From the People Who Live It, is published by Solitary Watch, the ACLU of Louisiana, and the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University New Orleans.More than two years in the making, it is based primarily on a survey completed by 709 people in solitary in all nine of Louisiana’s prisons, the largest ever survey of people l
State of Working Mississippi 2016
Working families seek economic security, meaning that they earn enough to pay for basic living expenses while saving enough to pay for larger and longer-term costs. Increasingly in the United States workers and their families are not able to achieve this security, especially minority households. This pattern is particularly prevalent in Mississippi. The reasons for the gap in what Mississippi families earn and what they need are multifaceted. The State of Working Mississippi 2016 analyzes trends in population, education, labor force, jobs, employment, wages, income, and poverty.
Too Much for Too Many
Recently, a representative of Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans asked me this question from the archbishop, “How much does it cost to live in New Orleans these days?” It was a question that had haunted me as an employer in the years immediately after Katrina as reports and rumors mixed together about rising prices of food, housing, utilities, and other basics.
Challenges before Catholic Social Teaching in the 21st Century
By Fred Kammer, SJ
Presented at St. Thomas University in Houston, TX on June 10, 2011.
¿Personas desechables? Reflexión jesuita sobre la migración en el siglo 21
By Tom Greene, SJ
Fr. Kammer Addressess 2012 Ignatian Family Teach-In on Immigration Reform
Immigration Reform: Scriptural and Theological Foundations
Transcription from November 17, 2012 by Fred Kammer, SJ at the Ignatian Family Teach-In in Washington D.C.
Continuity and Change in Caritas in Veritate
By Fred Kammer, S.J.
Toward a Global Economic Order at the Service of People, not Profits:
Pope Benedict XVI ‘s Caritas in Veritate
By Alex Mikulich, Ph.D.
(Note: Following the tradition of Catholic encyclicals, this commentary cites the numbered paragraphs in the text for easy reference, i.e., (#1, 2, 3, etc).)
Pope Benedict XVI ‘s first social encyclical Caritas in Veritate, “Charity in Truth,” advocates a new economic discourse and global economic order advancing a person-centered rather than profit-centered approach to globalization.
Diminishing All of Us: The Death Penalty in Louisiana
Dr. Alex Mikulich of JSRI and Sophie Cull of the Louisiana Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty recently published an extensive study on the Death Penalty in Louisiana. The full text of the study and a short brief are available through the Catholic Mobilizing Network.
Read the full text of the study: Diminishing All of Us: The Death Penalty in Louisana
The Common Good and Health Care Reform
By Fr. Fred Kammer, S.J.
This is the text of a talk Fr. Kammer presented on Feb. 12, 2012, in Washington, D.C. during CHA’s Physician Leader Forum. Reprinted from Health Progress, July-August 2012. Copyright © 2012 by The Catholic Health Association of the United States.