A week ago, the North Carolina State Legislature was planning to elimate state-funded chaplains from all North Carolina prisons.  Due to your successful lobbying, the North Carolina House Appropriations Committee voted unanimously to restore 20 chaplains slated to be cut. 

Take one minute now to tell your legislators that 20 chaplains is not enough. We have 38 medium and closed custody prisons in North Carolina. We need a chaplain in every one of these facilities. In the 12 prisons with over 1,000 inmates, we need two chaplains. We need at least 50 state-funded chaplains to meet the basic needs of our state. This would still be a reduction in chaplaincy for North Carolina, but it would be a reduction that we can work around. 

We are glad that the General Assembly is listening, and we appreciate the restoration of 20 chaplaincy positions. But we need chaplains in ALL of our prisons. Please take a moment to sign this petition and send a message to your representatives that we need chaplains in all of North Carolina's prisons. We need at least 50 state-funded chaplains to meet the needs of North Carolina's prisons.