ROME — Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final event ...

Aspects of daily life behind bars include cells so crowded that detainees cannot move without climbing over one another, and inmates sleeping on thin mattresses on the floor for weeks or months.

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Hundreds of prisoners were subsequently released.

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ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV criticized prison overcrowding and insufficient inmate rehabilitation programs on Sunday as he celebrated a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families in the final ...