prison chaplain
Jail's spiritual guide
A prison chaplain is a member of the clergy who ministers to inmates and staff within a correctional facility.
Prison chaplains provide religious services, spiritual counseling, and pastoral care across various faith traditions.
They often coordinate religious programs, facilitate visits from outside religious leaders, and support prisoners through crises: The prison chaplain sat with him the night before his execution.
- ministerReligious leader or serve
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- pastorChristian congregation leader
- man of GodReligious leader or priest
- holy ordersSacrament conferring clergy status
confession · redemption · forgiveness · inmate · behind bars · death row · cell · correctional facility · prayer · faith · counselor · salvation · penitentiary · absolution · sermon · spiritual · spiritual guidance · visitation
- chaplainspadre, ordained minister
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, warden, cellmate
- clergypriest, bishop, pope, nun, monk
- penal historygaols, jails, penitentiaries, convict, convicts
- chaplaincycampus ministry, pastoral counseling, spiritual counseling
- pastoral carepastoral counseling, spiritual counseling, church counseling, religious counseling, spiritual care
prison chaplainexecutioner
One who kills condemned
prison guard · corrections officer · warden · jailer · interrogator
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