Rome (NEV), July 26, 2020 – The Lutheran community of Genoa is looking for partners for a project aimed at prisoners who could merit penalty benefits, but who are forced to renounce because they have no place to go. The Lutheran Evangelical Church in Italy (CELI) makes this known on its website, where we read this story:
“Yussuf still has a twelve-month sentence to serve. Together with the ‘Friends of Zacchaeus’, an association founded in 2004 with the aim of accompanying prisoners on a journey of healing and new life, he began a spiritual journey in prison. This and his exemplary behavior would be worth him a penalty benefit. He could serve the missing months at home, the problem is that he does not have a house and therefore he just has to stay where he is. In jail”. “Yussuf and its story are invented”, the Lutherans write, “but it is a case like many, many others”.
“Those who remain in prison”, says lawyer Paolo Musso, president and referent for social actions of the Lutheran Evangelical Community of Genoa, “are largely drug addicts and foreigners, migrants. In short, the poor ”. The idea of this project, still in its embryonic phase, started from these experiences. CELI is now asking collaboration to its communities throughout Italy for the search for spaces and housing solutions to accommodate potential beneficiaries.
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