2023 United Thank Offering Grant Recipient - Episcopal Diocese of Western New York — Enhancing Human Rights through Clergy Jail Monitoring

Episcopal Diocese of Western New York — Enhancing Human Rights through Clergy Jail Monitoring: $37,500

Jails combine extreme power imbalance with low transparency, often enabling human rights abuses and racism. Teams of clergy, of varied faiths, will go into jails in Western New York to observe conditions, hear the stories of incarcerated people, and report findings and recommendations, upholding "the dignity of every human being."

This year’s focus for grant applications was projects addressing the worldwide incarceration crisis, specifically preventative programs and intervention, prisoner support outreach, prison reform work, or post-prison reentry.