{"id":167,"date":"2017-03-21T22:05:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T21:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kirkcaldy\/?p=167"},"modified":"2023-04-02T23:42:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:42:24","slug":"father-brian-gowans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kirkcaldy\/2017\/03\/21\/father-brian-gowans\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Brian Gowans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/kirkcaldy\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_5124c-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-168\" src=\"\/kirkcaldy\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_5124c-3-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5124c (3)\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kirkcaldy\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_5124c-3-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kirkcaldy\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_5124c-3-768x644.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/kirkcaldy\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_5124c-3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #333399\">President Kay and Father Brian Gowans<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #333399\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #333399\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Kay is holding a beautiful flower decoration made entirely from phone books by women prisoners in the Philippines!<\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #333399\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"color: #333399\">President Kay Wilkie introduced Father Brian Gowans, the Parish Priest at St Joseph\u2019s in Burntisland who was asked to speak in his capacity as Chaplains\u2019 Advisor to the Scottish Prison Service and President of the International Commission of Catholic Prison Pastoral Care. Soroptimists have a particular interest in the rehabilitation work done in women\u2019s prisons and in the efforts being made to help prisoners successfully return into the community and avoid going back to prison in the future.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color: #333399\">After being asked to temporarily cover for someone at the Young Offender\u2019s Institution Polmont in 1993, Father Brian found that the supply post led him to be involved with working with prisoners (mainly young people) for the next 23 years. In his role with the Scottish Prison Service he has visited all the prisons in Scotland and as International President, many prisons throughout the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">He explained that women end up in prison for many reasons and some of them have a multitude of problems including mental health issues, addictions and abusive relationships. Looking behind the initial impression many of the women give, there can be someone who has been bullied, neglected by parents, has very low self esteem and whom nobody has taken the time to talk to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">An increasing problem, today, is that some of the women are met by their pimps as they leave the prison gates. The \u201csex trade&#8221; has in many ways become the new \u201cslave trade\u201d \u00a0and this often leads to the vicious circle of intimidation, drugs, prostitution and hence a return to prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">The system of women\u2019s prisons is hopefully changing for the better. It is proposed to knock down Cornton Vale and build a new prison which will house 80 women and other offenders will be housed in the community. Conditions will be better and specialist help will be available from mental health services and social workers amongst others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399\">Father Brian concluded by saying that if we change the prisons we can perhaps reduce the number of re-offenders and hence the number of victims of crime. Even better &#8211; in an ideal world &#8211; we would not have to send people to prison because we would have managed to deal with the problems before they led to the need for a prison sentence<strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Kay and Father Brian Gowans Kay is holding a beautiful flower decoration made entirely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,20,22,18,19],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cornton-vale","tag-father-brian-gowans","tag-prison-reform","tag-prisons","tag-women-prisoners"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Father Brian Gowans | News | Blog | Events | SI Kirkcaldy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Kirkcaldy : Blog &amp; News : Father Brian Gowans : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Kirkcaldy . 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