Peruvian prelate pioneering prison reform calls for social development

Peruvian prelate pioneering prison reform calls for social development

ROME – One Peruvian bishop who was recently in Rome for official meetings with Pope Leo and Vatican departments is determined to carry forward the pope’s push for social action, specifically through prison reform. Speaking to Crux, Bishop Jorge Izaguirre of Chosica, Peru, said prisons in Peru and much of Latin America “are human warehouses,” overcrowded, rampant with corruption, and lacking in proper medical care. “For us as Church, our mission …