21 December 2023, The Tablet

Doing time – and glory shone around

by Chris Rooke

No one sets out in life to engage in crime and end up in prison. But many were set up to fail from childhood.

Doing time – and glory shone around

The chapel window at HMP Dorchester.
Alamy/Finbar

 
In the final reflection of our Advent series, a prison chaplain finds celebrating Christmas with inmates profoundly moving.
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