A mission shared, a flock divided

by doppelt | March 30, 2009 at 11:00 am
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Detentions at McHenry County Correctional Facility

Over half of the inmates at the McHenry County Correctional Facility, in Woodstock, are immigrant detainees. Jail officials, activists and clergy are working together to meet their spiritual needs as they are locked away from friends and family. But as Greg Trotter reports for Medill's For the People...around Chicago project, there is a subtle division between those who believe in the mission's success and those who feel the immigrants are being denied access to their faiths in their darkest hours.

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