The coronavirus crisis isn’t just sanitary and economic. It also attacks indirectly groups with certain social vulnerabilities, where it causes psychological and spiritual imbalances. Unfortunately, it’s the case that prisoners are living these days. In the Archdiocese of Madrid, the epicentre of the coronavirus infection in Spain, the Penitentiary Pastoral Ministry, whose delegate is Maria Yela, accompanies the inmates of three centers: Soto del Real, Victoria Kent, with some family projects in Navalcarnero.
Another Type of Ailments
Yela, thoroughly knowledgeable of this very delicate situation, described to Zenit how they are feeling. “If for everyone it was at the beginning a sensation of ‘unreality,’ living it with uncertainty, we feel vulnerable and it seems that the world has stopped, imagine how it is for them, that even if they have wounded and are judged and sentenced, they are human beings, who live in a small cell with many people, with a population that is quite vulnerable, which has another type of ailments, and many persons are living together in a small module.”