{"id":2001,"date":"2011-05-21T16:48:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/felony-sentencing-for-possession-are-you-high.html"},"modified":"2011-05-21T16:48:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T20:48:30","slug":"felony-sentencing-for-possession-are-you-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/felony-sentencing-for-possession-are-you-high.html","title":{"rendered":"Felony sentencing for possession &mdash; Are you high?"},"content":{"rendered":"And now a word from the ACLU (yes, I am a card-carrying member):\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.aclu.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&#038;page=UserAction&#038;id=3158\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"\nwidth=\"537\"\nheight=\"720\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/kWxvn.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\n<blockquote>\nAs we watch the state budget crisis deepen, one of the most wasteful\nand harmful policies of our state government \u2013 felony sentences for\nsimple drug possession \u2013 remains in place. We are spending unnecessary\nmillions to incarcerate people who pose no threat to public safety.\n<p>\nSentencing reform is the way to bring prison spending back in line\nwith other priorities \u2013 like public schools and universities, social\nservices, and drug treatment.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat&#8217;s actually from the\n<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.aclu.org\/site\/Advocacy?cmd=display&#038;page=UserAction&#038;id=3158\">\nACLU of Northern California,<\/a>\nbut the point is the same for anywhere that locks up people\nfor minor drug offenses, like Georgia.\n<p>\nWe don&#8217;t need a private prison in Lowndes County.\nSpend that tax money on schools instead.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And now a word from the ACLU (yes, I am a card-carrying member): As we watch the state budget crisis deepen, one of the most wasteful and harmful policies of our state government \u2013 felony sentences for simple drug possession \u2013 remains in place. We are spending unnecessary millions to incarcerate people who pose no [&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":[97,1113,40,15,72,178],"tags":[8747,339,8817,8705,8701,8730,7,4522,4523,3017,1297,3410,60,8749],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-community","category-education","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-aclu","tag-california","tag-cca","tag-education","tag-georgia","tag-incarceration","tag-lowndes-county","tag-northern-california","tag-posession","tag-priorities","tag-private-prison","tag-schools","tag-tax","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-wh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","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=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}