{"id":2964,"date":"2022-11-08T11:31:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2022-11-08T11:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:31:02","slug":"addiction-is-not-a-crime-bishop-says-as-drug-dependent-offenders-fill-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=2964","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Addiction is not a crime,\u2019 bishop says as drug-dependent offenders fill prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic bishop has said that \u201caddiction is not a crime\u201d as he appealed to policymakers to pay attention to the medical and psychological needs of prisoners doing time for crimes linked to drug addiction.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop-cap fl header-font pr3 pb2\">I<\/span>n a statement for Prisoners Sunday, Dr Martin Hayes, the Liaison Bishop to the Irish Prison Service, criticised Irish prisons for being \u201cdevoid of humanity\u201d and he highlighted that many prisoners struggle with loneliness.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the work of recently retired prison chaplain, Sr Imelda Wickham, the Bishop of Kilmore said she had\u00a0stressed that it is not just those who are incarcerated that serve the sentence, but their families bear a cost too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/irish-news\/crime\/addiction-is-not-a-crime-bishop-says-as-drug-dependent-offenders-fill-prisons-42123222.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic bishop has said that \u201caddiction is not a crime\u201d as he appealed to policymakers to pay attention to the medical and psychological needs of prisoners doing time for crimes linked to drug addiction. In a statement for Prisoners Sunday, Dr Martin Hayes, the Liaison Bishop to the Irish Prison Service, criticised Irish prisons for being \u201cdevoid of humanity\u201d and he highlighted that many prisoners struggle with loneliness. Referring to the work of recently retired prison chaplain, Sr Imelda  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}