{"id":196477,"date":"2008-04-24T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/24\/that-shining-penitentiary-on-the-hill\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T10:11:00","slug":"that-shining-penitentiary-on-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/24\/that-shining-penitentiary-on-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"That Shining Penitentiary on the Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US has 5% of the worlds population, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/04\/23\/america\/23prison.php\">25% of the worlds prisoners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We imprison a greater proportion of our population than the despots of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Are our streets safer?  Nope.<\/p>\n<p>Is crime less???  Nope. (and that&#8217;s not considering the high dollar value of the Wall Street variety).<\/p>\n<p>Lower taxes?  Only if you&#8217;re rich.<\/p>\n<p>I guess as Americans, we just need someone to hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has 5% of the worlds population, and 25% of the worlds prisoners. We imprison a greater proportion of our population than the despots of the world. Are our streets safer? Nope. Is crime less??? Nope. (and that&#8217;s not considering the high dollar value of the Wall Street variety). Lower taxes? Only if you&#8217;re &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196477"}],"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=196477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}