{"id":1804,"date":"2011-07-05T08:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/eligible-for-prison-road-labor.html"},"modified":"2011-07-05T08:15:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T12:15:05","slug":"eligible-for-prison-road-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/eligible-for-prison-road-labor.html","title":{"rendered":"Eligible for prison road labor"},"content":{"rendered":"In for a drug offense?\nGot out but failed a drug test?\nYou may be eligible for a prison road gang!\n<p>\nAP wrote 4 July 2011,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/news\/content\/georgianews\/story\/GA-parolees-road-maintenance\/NuwJeBb--UKxqAFgWLqXSA.cspx\">\nGA parolees &#038; road maintenance<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/news\/content\/georgianews\/story\/GA-parolees-road-maintenance\/NuwJeBb--UKxqAFgWLqXSA.cspx\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/media\/lib\/159\/c\/5\/5\/c55370a8-4636-437c-8900-38b95e9bff78\/Story.jpg\"><\/a>\nGeorgia is expanding a pilot program that sanctions some parolees by\nputting them to work rather than returning them to prison.\n<p>\nThe program began in Milledgeville, Gainesville, Columbus and Dalton. This\nsummer it will be expanding to communities across Georgia.\n<p>\nParolees are eligible if they have committed low-level violations of\ntheir supervision requirements, such as the onetime failure of a drug\ntest or curfew violations.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nHow long will it take before these prisoners are sent to work in fields?\n<p>\nWouldn&#8217;t it make more sense to stop wasting taxpayer dollars\non locking up people for minor drug offenses?\n<p>\nOr maybe prison slave labor is a good way to celebrate July 4th.\n<p>\n-jsq\n<p>\nPS: Gretchen got this item from Dwight Rewis of Echols County.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In for a drug offense? Got out but failed a drug test? You may be eligible for a prison road gang! AP wrote 4 July 2011, GA parolees &#038; road maintenance Georgia is expanding a pilot program that sanctions some parolees by putting them to work rather than returning them to prison. The program began [&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":[202,1113,2,1381,72,178],"tags":[8817,77,8730,727,2490,2489,383,8749,82],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-cca","category-government","category-immigration","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-cca","tag-drugs","tag-incarceration","tag-jail","tag-parole","tag-probation","tag-taxes","tag-vlcia","tag-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-t6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","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=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}