Anglican Bishops to have "Inside" Look at Corrections System
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- Date
- 1986 October 7
- Source
- Anglican News Service
- Type
- Press Release
- Text of motion
- Toronto, Oct. 07, 1986 -- For immediate release
- "What's a nice Bishop like you doing in a place like the Penitentiary?", may well be asked next month.
- The members of the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada have a difficult task as chief Pastors in the face of the complexities of the moral issues of today's society. To assist them in this, the House meets periodically with experts in various fields, in what are known as Continuing Education events, to receive insight into the realities of many of the issues which confront the Church and society.
- Two such areas of concern which have been the subjects of Continuing Education sessions of the House in the past were Bio-Medical Ethics and Human Sexuality.
- In the first week of November the House will meet in Kingston, Ontario to consider the effects of the Canadian Corrections Service on its inmates, those who work in it and the society it is created to protect. A most impressive schedule of events and presentations has been planned to give the Bishops a personal in-depth experience of various aspects of the criminal justice and corrections system. A schedule of the three day session is enclosed.
- The House reserves the right to declare any of its sessions in-camera. However, the Agenda and Continuing Education Committees of the House have suggested that all of these sessions should be open to the Media, subject to the concurrence of the House when it meets.
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- For further information, please contact:
- The Rev. Canon Richard J. Berryman, Media Officer
- Notes
- HOUSE OF BISHOPS CONTINUING EDUCATION EVENT ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CORRECTIONS
- To be held at the Howard Johnson Motor Hotel, Kingston, Ont.
- Tuesday, Nov. 04, 1986:
- - 7:30 p.m. Reception to give the Bishops an opportunity to meet about 100 people from the John Howard Society, parole officers, prison guards, legal and judicial professions.
- Wednesday, Nov. 05, 1986:
- - 10:00 a.m. Presentation by Alex Himmelfard, Director of Research, Federal Justice Department, Ottawa -- An overview of the Justice System with special reference to Native People.
- - 1:30 p.m. Simulated Court Case -- Trial on a Domestic Violence Case. Actual Proscuting Attorney, Defense Lawyers, etc.
- -- Bishops will act as Judge -- decide guilt or innocence and sentence.
- -- At conclusion a Judge will declare what his verdict would have been in the trial.
- - 4:00 p.m. Theological Reflection on the day to that point.
- - Evening The Bishops, in twos and threes, will visit the homes of families of prison guards, inmates, low income family housing, etc.
- Thursday, Nov. o6, 1986:
- - Morning -- The Bishops will visit six institutions in the Kingston area -- eg. Minimum, Medium and Maximum security facilities, Women's and Juvenile Detention Centres, etc.
- - 1:30 p.m. Consideration (with panel of professionals) of Parole, Mandatory Release, etc. "How do inmates get out and what happens when they do ?"
- - 7:30 p.m. Eucharist of Reconciliation in St. George's Cathedral.
- -- Preacher: The Most Rev. Michael Peers, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada.
- Subjects
- Anglican Church of Canada. House of Bishops
- In camera meetings
- Prisons - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Church work with prisoners - Anglican Church of Canada
- Criminal justice, Administration of - Canada - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada - House of Bishops - Education (Continuing education)