Catholic and Anglican bishops are supporting an amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill currently in the UK’s House of Lords amid concerns that children suffer when their parents are sent to jail.
Bishop Richard Moth of Arundel and Brighton, the Lead Bishop for Prisons for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and Bishop Rachel Treweek, Anglican Bishop for Prisons, issued a joint statement saying the proposed change will help society understand the “devastating consequences” that the imprisonment of a primary caregiver can have on a child.
