{"id":194860,"date":"2008-08-13T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/13\/the-cost-of-americas-prison-society\/"},"modified":"2008-08-13T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T03:04:00","slug":"the-cost-of-americas-prison-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/13\/the-cost-of-americas-prison-society\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cost of America&#8217;s Prison Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The court appointed overseer of prison healthcare in California has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-prisons14-2008aug14,0,7106612.story\">moved to seize $8 billion from the California treasury for healthcare for inmates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s spending on prisons exceeded its spending on <strike>education<\/strike> the state university system some time in the early 1980s, and has aggressively pursued incarceration with the most aggressive &#8220;three strikes&#8221; law enforcement in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the people of California will have to start <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">paying<\/span> for their imprisonment fetish.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this will make the people of California think about the value of the war on drugs and our prison society.<\/p>\n<p>There is a greater proportion of the US population imprisoned than any other society in history&#8230;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ever<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The court appointed overseer of prison healthcare in California has moved to seize $8 billion from the California treasury for healthcare for inmates. California&#8217;s spending on prisons exceeded its spending on education the state university system some time in the early 1980s, and has aggressively pursued incarceration with the most aggressive &#8220;three strikes&#8221; law enforcement &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1047,1046],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corrections","category-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}