Talk:Ukraine prison ministries

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I'm Catholic, but considering the title is not Catholic specific I wonder why the article seems to be Catholic specific. Do the Orthodox not have a prison ministry in Ukraine?--T. Anthony (talk) 10:46, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

needs a clearer focus
This article doesn't seem clear on whether its topic is (a) prisons in Ukraine, (b) prison reform in Ukraine, (c) prison ministry in Ukraine, or (d) Catholic prison ministry in Ukraine. Can we figure out which it's meant to be, and narrow it down appropriately? Moriwen (talk) 18:57, 8 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Hey there, I agree. I'm currently copy editing/trimming this article for the GOCE March drive. I'll let you know when I finish that up, and I'll have a response to this question. Wracking  💬 03:20, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Moriwen: I've finished my copy edit. Based on the content in the article and the title, I believe the topic is (c), and I edited with that in mind. I think it would be a good idea to change the page's name to Ukraine prison ministries, as it would make more clear the subject(s) of the article. Wracking  💬 17:06, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Removed text
I removed the lead of this article, which had no bearing on the actual article topic. Perhaps it has use elsewhere.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, the independent Ukrainian country underwent tremendous stress when it shifted from a centrally planned economy to a free market system. Still, those changes were led not by true reformers but by postcommunist oligarchy from among the Communist Party of Ukraine and KGB functionaries. They deftly controlled the privatization process for the purpose of their own enrichment during the 1990s. Consequently, unemployment and the number of impoverished and homeless people in Ukraine have increased. The crime rate and the prison population grew until 2001. Changes in the penal policy of the Ukrainian government started after the pontifical visit of Pope John Paul II to Ukraine. Overcrowding in prisons has been stopped, and the next 8 years will see the prison population continue to decline.

In 2010–2011, the number of remand prisoners increased sharply, reaching 45,000. Beginning in July 2012, the prison population fell from 154,000 to 79,750 before the 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine. As a matter of fact, the Donbas has 20% of all prisons functioning in Ukraine. As a legacy of the Soviet period, the Donetsk and Lugansk regions have 20 and 16 prison facilities, respectively, three or even four times more than any other region in Ukraine. Convicts were released without any government programs for rehabilitation, destabilizing these regions.

During the Russo-Ukrainian War, in 2014, hundreds of convicts from prisons in Donbas were armed by pro-Russian militants. Other prisoners have been used as slave laborers.

Prison reform in Ukraine goes on.

Wracking 💬 04:35, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Renamed page
This page was renamed from Ukraine prison ministry to its present name, Ukraine prison ministries. Wracking 💬 06:32, 28 March 2023 (UTC)