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To: marajade

Let me give some facts.

Before I fully retired I spent several years teaching federally incarcerated inmates at Lewisburg Penitentiary and the Allenwood Complex. These locations consisted of 6 facilities.

The one Catholic Church within the geographic had two priests. These two priests had to handle the 6 facilities and also two hospitals in the area.

The allotted time for a priest or other clergy and social service organisations was about 1 hour per day or night. 20 minutes of that one hour was spent on entering and leaving the facility, This left 40 minutes.

A priest would take at least 1 hour to have a Mass including preparation. To hear confessions would be another 1 hour, etc. etc. I could go on with the time frame but I hope you see what I am saying.

Right now we have a local county prison and it is the same. Hospitals and 2 churches with 2 priests. Again, there are limited visit times as it is with all enforcement localities/facilities.

To make an accusation without substantial support is short sighted. Give me your diocese and I will get a priest for you.


23 posted on 08/13/2006 3:47:54 PM PDT by franky (Pray for the souls of the faithful departed.)
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To: franky

"To make an accusation without substantial support is short sighted. Give me your diocese and I will get a priest for you."

According to state contract we pay them 200 an hour. They are not limited to a specific time frame. If they sign in at 10a and leave at 12p they are paid 400 per contract.

I'm telling the truth, because I was the one who was monitoring the contract and paying the invoices was told specifically this was the case by both our facility chaplain and the Catholic diocese monetary Catholic priests myself.

I resent the fact that you are accusing me of making such an allegation and lying about something like this.



26 posted on 08/13/2006 3:57:13 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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