Following the Sant'Egidio breakfast on 11 February, at which the Minister of Justice Annelise Verlinden discussed the state of Belgium's prisons with the chefs de culte, the Chaplain-President alongside the other chefs de culte has issued a statement carried in De Morgen and La Libre, which supports Minister Verlinden in her ongoing attempts to improve the conditions of prisoners in Belgium, to explore alternative and effective punishments which do not involve incarceration and to support the quiet but diligent work of rehabilitation done by our prison chaplains and counsellors. The statement may be read here in French and in Dutch.