{"id":1483,"date":"2011-09-22T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/1-of-17-ga-tax-dollars-spent-on-prisons.html"},"modified":"2011-09-22T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T14:22:31","slug":"1-of-17-ga-tax-dollars-spent-on-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/1-of-17-ga-tax-dollars-spent-on-prisons.html","title":{"rendered":"$1 of 17 GA tax dollars spent on prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"Carrie Teegardin wrote for the AJC 4 April 2010,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/georgia-prison-population-costs-429757.html\">\nGeorgia prison population, costs on rise<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/georgia-prison-population-costs-429757.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/multimedia\/dynamic\/00511\/108310681_-1_511163l.jpg\"><\/a>\nGeorgia operates the fifth-largest prison system in the nation, at a\ncost of $1 billion a year. The job of overseeing 60,000 inmates and\n150,000 felons on probation consumes 1 of every 17 state dollars.\n<\/blockquote>\nAbove owed to Farrah D. Reed, who also commented on\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/09\/gov-deal-the-bad-prison-slave-labor-competing-with-free-labor.html\">\nGov. Deal: the bad, prison slave labor competing with free labor<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\nMaybe if our tax dollars were spent on education and rehabilitation we\nwouldn&#8217;t have so many folks locked up in the first place!\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carrie Teegardin wrote for the AJC 4 April 2010, Georgia prison population, costs on rise Georgia operates the fifth-largest prison system in the nation, at a cost of $1 billion a year. The job of overseeing 60,000 inmates and 150,000 felons on probation consumes 1 of every 17 state dollars. Above owed to Farrah D. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,1113,14,15,8,2,72,178],"tags":[3696,8705,8701,8730,75,2712,60],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-economy","category-education","category-georgia","category-government","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-dollar","tag-education","tag-georgia","tag-incarceration","tag-prison","tag-rehabilitation","tag-tax"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-nV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}