{"id":50,"date":"2007-03-21T04:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opinion.katrinasdream.org\/?p=50"},"modified":"2007-03-21T04:19:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T12:19:25","slug":"bishop-katharine-copy-the-brits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/bishop-katharine-copy-the-brits\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Katharine, Copy the Brits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><strong>Reforming Bishop to Head up Prison Monitoring Group<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"right\"><em>By Ekklesia Staff Writers 21 Mar 2007<\/em><\/div>\n<p>A network of prison monitoring groups is to be headed up by the Bishop of Worcester when he leaves his current post.<br \/>\nDr Peter Selby&#8217;s move will take place when he retires in September after 10 years in charge of his diocese.<br \/>\nHe was appointed by Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams as the Church of England &#8216;Bishop to HM Prisons&#8217; in 2001, and will become the President of the National Council for Independent Monitoring Boards in January 2008.<br \/>\nDr Selby has spoken out firmly in favour of the retention of an independent inspectorate of prisons, forcing the government onto the back foot on the issue.<br \/>\nHe is also an advocate of methods of restorative justice &#8211; which the Church of England has backed in a recent Synod report that he made a major contribution to, and he has been a critic of prison privatisation.<br \/>\nPeter Selby, a former research professor in practical theology at the Universities of Durham and Newcastle, said he had worked in prisons since 1965.<br \/>\nHis first eucharist as Bishop of Worcester was at Long Lartin prison. The prisoners there sent him a wall-hanging.<br \/>\nHe said that he had decided to take the National Council for Independent Monitoring Boards job because he felt it was &#8220;a bullet with my name on it&#8221;.<br \/>\nHe added: &#8220;Although I wasn&#8217;t actually looking for a retirement task at this stage I didn&#8217;t really think I could say no to it.&#8221;<br \/>\nEach prison has an independent monitoring board made up of ordinary members of the public whose role is to monitor the day-to-day life within the jail and ensure inmates are treated correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reforming Bishop to Head up Prison Monitoring Group By Ekklesia Staff Writers 21 Mar 2007 A network of prison monitoring groups is to be headed up by the Bishop of Worcester when he leaves his current post. Dr Peter Selby&#8217;s move will take place when he retires in September after 10 years in charge of&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/bishop-katharine-copy-the-brits\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-injustice-to-women","category-peace-justice","tag-rev-samuel-gardner-welles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}