{"id":8069,"date":"2010-04-10T10:52:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T14:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=8069"},"modified":"2010-04-10T10:52:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T14:52:35","slug":"ottawa-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/ottawa-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Locked up in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend who volunteers for Ottawa Inner City Ministries<\/a> emailed me about a recovering alcoholic who has been caught in the Kafkaesque machinery of the justice system:<\/p>\n

Tom is a recovering alcoholic that will be celebrating seven years of sobriety in two weeks.\u00a0 He works his 12 step program and is determined to stay clean.\u00a0 He came to visit us, then volunteered, and then entered our work skills program.\u00a0 He comes to the office four days a week to help: no job too big, no job too small, he does them all \u2013 with a cheerful heart.\u00a0 He has a record but his probation ends in two short months \u2013 and he works hard at keeping clean.\u00a0 He won\u2019t even cross the street \u00a0without a walk signal.<\/p>\n

Clean. Squeaky clean.\u00a0 Pleasant, kind, hard-working, and a delight to be around. We have high hopes for Tom.<\/p>\n

So one day, he doesn\u2019t show up. A day, then two and more and then a week and we wonder where he is.\u00a0 No way to contact him.\u00a0 Finally we find him \u2013 in jail.<\/p>\n

He is in jail right now, been there just over two weeks for \u201cparole violation\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 For \u201cpanhandling\u201d.\u00a0 Reported to his Parole Officer (P.O.) by an \u201canonymous\u201d person who called it in.\u00a0 Over fourteen days in jail (and counting) with no help.\u00a0 No lawyer.\u00a0 No hearing.\u00a0 No explanation.\u00a0 Just \u201cthere\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are further instalments here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many churches spend their time petitioning government to help the poor while doing little themselves; this organisation is <\/em>helping the poor in spite of a government that seems to be determined to undo its good work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend who volunteers for Ottawa Inner City Ministries emailed me about a recovering alcoholic who has been caught in the Kafkaesque machinery of the justice system: Tom is a recovering alcoholic that will be celebrating seven years of sobriety … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[2204],"class_list":["post-8069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mr-bumble","tag-mr-bumble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}