I Support Georgia Prison
Chaplains!
On August 19, 2008, the Georgia Department of Corrections released
the following statement: "Due to the budget restrictions,
Chaplaincy services, including all facility chaplains, are being
considered to be completely and permanently eliminated."
 Please
help us preserve Georgia prison chaplains by reading and signing the
following petition:
I support Georgia’s prison chaplains and the work they are doing to
rehabilitate Georgia’s prison population, which is at an all-time
high. I do not want to see Georgia eliminate its prison chaplains
as suggested by the Georgia Department of Corrections on August 19,
2008. Our state has the second highest percentage of its
population in prison than any place in the world, and I believe
eliminating our chaplains would have a negative effect on our
prisons and on the safety and well being of our society as a whole.
Since studies prove that faith-based initiatives have the greatest
capacity for rehabilitating prisoners and reducing recidivism rates,
eliminating the chaplains would be a harmful decision with many
negative repercussions for our state. I ask Governor Perdue and our
state leaders to please reinstate our chaplains to full-time status
in the budget they are currently formulating.
Please write or call and express you desire to
preserve our prison chaplains:
Commissioner Brian Owens
Georgia Department of Corrections
East Tower, Suite 866
2 Martin Luther Kind, Jr. Dr.
Atlanta, GA 30334
404-656-6002
gdccommish@dcor.state.ga.us
Governor Sonny Perdue
203 State Capitol
Atlanta , Georgia 30334
404-656-1776 |
