neglecting human dignity to the social law enforcement service cherishing penitentiary idea. Our mission is to serve the inmates in the national penitentiaries with Christian charity and reconciliation through extensive ministry to the spiritual and physical needs of prisoners of any creed, sex, age, religious faith, or nationality. The priority directions of the ministry are sermon, catechetics, administration of the sacraments for inmates, assistance and support of communication with family, spiritual support of the prison stuff, engagement of lay people in ministry. The UGCC Prison Ministry has many directions of development in compatibility with other missions of the Church. It is currently carrying out on the base of "The Agreement for cooperation of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church with the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine", which offers many possibilities. Today pastoral ministry is regularly carried out in penitentiary facilities # 14, 30, 34, 40, 41, 44, 46, 47, 48, 50, 55, 63, 85, 112, 128, 135 in seven remand prisons and in one juvenile correctional facility. The other 8 prisons our pastors are able to attend just irregularly. The number of prison chaplains has decreased in recent years. Considering the occupation of certain territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, care of prisoners was suspended in prisons # 3, 13, 120, 124. Two juvenile correctional facilities in Sambir and Berezhany as well as prisons # 110 and 118 were closed. Four prison chaplains became pastors for military forces. Development The UGCC became an active member of The International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care (ICCPPC) at the XIIth World Congress, held in Rome in September 2007. The ICCPPC is a worldwide Association of country delegates for Catholic Prison Pastoral Care, composed of clerical and lay persons. At this Congress the Church expressed concern about imprisoned held in inhumane conditions, especially minors, women, old and mentally ill persons and those people who only came on trial and their guilt was not proven. For the first time in the history of Ukraine, a training program for prison chaplains of the UGCC called "Pastoral care at the penitentiary institutions of Ukraine" was held at the Professional College of the State Penal Department in Bila Tserkva town in November, 2007. On February - May, 2008 this common educational program was spread out for other Christian denominations. Since 2008 chaplains of the UGCC are in closer cooperation with catholic chaplains in Poland sharing experiences. On February, 2008