{"id":23122,"date":"2016-09-26T10:07:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23122"},"modified":"2016-09-26T10:07:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:07:47","slug":"there-ought-to-be-a-law-why-prison-is-the-american-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/09\/26\/there-ought-to-be-a-law-why-prison-is-the-american-way\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThere Ought to be a Law\u2026.\u201d Why Prison is the American Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2016\/09\/there-ought-to-be-a-law-why-prison-is-the-american-way.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThere Ought to be a Law\u2026.\u201d Why Prison is the American Way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Washington, D.C.-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pficjr.org\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Centre for Justice and Reconciliation<\/a> describes it this way: \u201cRestorative justice repairs the harm caused by crime. When victims, offenders, and community members meet to decide how to do that, the results can be transformational.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I bet this is something that is on Jill Stein&#8217;s mind about transforming this country.  I can probably figure out why she doesn&#8217;t talk about ideas like this on the campaign trail.  What she does talk about is already visionary enough.  If she talked about this, people would absolutely know that she was crazy.  What a pity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the article \u201cThere Ought to be a Law\u2026.\u201d Why Prison is the American Way. The Washington, D.C.-based Centre for Justice and Reconciliation describes it this way: \u201cRestorative justice repairs the harm caused by crime. When victims, offenders, and community members meet to decide how to do that, the results can be transformational.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23123,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23122\/revisions\/23123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}