{"id":2185,"date":"2011-04-16T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/one-of-the-ways-we-save-money-is-not-build-new-prisons-grover-norquist.html"},"modified":"2011-04-16T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:00:00","slug":"one-of-the-ways-we-save-money-is-not-build-new-prisons-grover-norquist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/one-of-the-ways-we-save-money-is-not-build-new-prisons-grover-norquist.html","title":{"rendered":"One of the ways we save money is not build new prisons &mdash;Grover Norquist"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3N9VLh7SfYA&#038;playnext=1&#038;list=PL095245066AB2520D\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/3N9VLh7SfYA\/default.jpg\"\n><\/a>\nOn the Alyona Show,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3N9VLh7SfYA&#038;playnext=1&#038;list=PL095245066AB2520D\">\nGrover Norquist: Prison Reform NOW<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\nA long prison sentence might be justified,\nbut it also might be very expensive,\nand maybe it&#8217;s not the best way to deal with people with drug problems.\n<p>\n&#8230;\n<p>\nPeople do want to know that violent criminals are locked up for a good length of time.\nThey&#8217;re not particularly interested in locking up in prison for\n$20,000 a year or in some places in California,\n$50,000 a year&#8230;.\nIt&#8217;s not free to put someone in prison.\n<\/blockquote>\nHe even recommends trying rehabilitation and drug treatment.\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3N9VLh7SfYA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\n<blockquote>\nTexas is the state that&#8217;s moved out there, done some very serious analysis.\n<\/blockquote>\nDrug rehabilitiation, lower recidivism, lower costs.\n<p>\nIn Lowndes County, Georgia, we have two hospitals, a drug treatment center, and many doctors and nurses. What if we invested in them instead of in a money-losing private prison?\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the Alyona Show, Grover Norquist: Prison Reform NOW: A long prison sentence might be justified, but it also might be very expensive, and maybe it&#8217;s not the best way to deal with people with drug problems. &#8230; People do want to know that violent criminals are locked up for a good length of time. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[97,1113,72,178],"tags":[8817,3767,8701,3383,7,1297,4574,2712,383,237,82],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-cca","tag-costs","tag-georgia","tag-grover-norquist","tag-lowndes-county","tag-private-prison","tag-recidivism","tag-rehabilitation","tag-taxes","tag-texas","tag-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-zf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","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=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}