the Roman Catholic prison ministry in Ukraine. The most active prison chaplains are Oblate Fathers. Since September, 2000 Fr. Draus started to work among prisoners in two penal institutions. From the beginning of his ministry in Ukraine Fr. Grzegorz does his best efforts to animate the local RCC ordinaries to promote prison pastoral care and the humanisation of the prison system of Ukraine. He was a board chairperson of the Ukrainian Interdenominational Christian Mission during 2007 - 2011 as well. On the background of the program elaborated with the Greek-Catholic Chaplaincy in the year 2008 he developed the educational seminar for Christian Churches Ministry in Prisons. The goal was to promote active cooperation with Christian Churches and Denominations, taking into account specificities of Ukrainian Penal System institutions. Heads of the regional Prison Management Units of Ukraine made reports about improving of cooperation of prison personnel with chaplains and volunteers. The officials recognized the positive changes of convicts under the influence of pastoral care. Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine has 7 dioceses. Because of lack of pastoral resources, regular pastoral care is established just in 11 prisons: Lviv - Remand Prison and Prison Facility, Rivne Detention Center and Prison of Horodyshche, High security prison of Izaslav, Raykivtsi (Khmelnytsky region), Prison of Kharkiv, Prison of Vinnitsa, Prison of Sumy, Prison of Poltava, Prison of Odessa. In 6 more prisons pastors could come just occasionally Prisons regularly attends 7 priests and 3 pastoral assistants. The most active prison chaplains are Oblate Fathers. Since 2011 until now there are significant obstacles in visiting penal institutions under various pretexts. In particular, authorities have given a need for priests who have Polish citizenship to execute each time a separate permit to visit one institution. These restrictions are introduced by President Yanukovych, but they are still applied. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv organized a special event in prison in the Year of Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy with participation of Archbishop of Lviv. RCC in Ukraine is a member of the Ukrainian Interdenominational Christian Mission "Spiritual and Charitable Care in Prisons". Catholic Churches are members of the Inter-confessional pastoral counsel as an advisory body for head prison administration of Ukraine References External links Blog: Penitentiary Ministry of the UGCC. International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care TV-program: Expediency of Juvenile Justice in Ukraine: TV-program: Prison system of Ukraine. How to cope? TV-program: Death penalty. TV-blog: The Day