{"id":56516,"date":"2016-11-30T02:45:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T02:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/roman_catholic_and_anglican_churches_slam_andrews_government_over\/"},"modified":"2016-11-30T02:45:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T02:45:34","slug":"roman_catholic_and_anglican_churches_slam_andrews_government_over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56516","title":{"rendered":"Roman Catholic and Anglican churches slam Andrews government over treatment of young offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne&#8217;s Catholic and Anglican archbishops have condemned the Andrews government&#8217;s imprisonment of teenagers in &#8220;the harshest of adult prison settings&#8221;, warning that teen offenders&#8217; welfare and chances of rehabilitation are at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart and his Anglican counterpart Philip Freier have taken the &#8220;unusual step&#8221; of writing a joint letter to Mr Andrews offering to boost chaplaincy and pastoral care services to &#8220;the most vulnerable and impressionable children&#8221; in the care of the state as the youth justice crisis deepens.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month rioting teen inmates damaged the Melbourne Youth Justice Centre at Parkville. In response, Premier Daniel Andrews&#8217; government moved some inmates to the maximum security Barwon Prison, making &#8220;no apology&#8221; for the plan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/catholic-and-anglican-churches-slam-premier-over-treatment-of-young-offenders-20161129-gt0f54.html\">Read it all<\/a> from The Age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne&#8217;s Catholic and Anglican archbishops have condemned the Andrews government&#8217;s imprisonment of teenagers in &#8220;the harshest of adult prison settings&#8221;, warning that teen offenders&#8217; welfare and chances of rehabilitation are at risk. Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart and his Anglican counterpart<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56516\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,42,395,74,114,154,151,108,364,110,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-teens-youth","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}