{"id":2264,"date":"2011-03-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/private-prisons-illegal-in-israel.html"},"modified":"2011-03-28T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:00:00","slug":"private-prisons-illegal-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/private-prisons-illegal-in-israel.html","title":{"rendered":"Private prisons illegal in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t find a U.S. Jewish statement on private prisons, but Tomer Zarchin<br \/>\npublished this in Haaretz<br \/>\nin Israel 20 November 2009:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/print-edition\/news\/international-legal-precedent-no-private-prisons-in-israel-1.3774\"><br \/>\nInternational legal precedent: No private prisons in Israel<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/print-edition\/news\/international-legal-precedent-no-private-prisons-in-israel-1.3774\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.azm.org\/dev\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Dorit-Beinish.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe High Court of Justice put an end to years of controversy Thursday<br \/>\nby ruling that privately run prisons are unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\nFollowing the decision, the state is expected to have to pay hundreds<br \/>\nof millions of shekels in compensation to a company that had already<br \/>\ncompleted construction of the first private prison, near Be&#8217;er Sheva.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe panel of nine justices, presided over by Supreme Court President Dorit<br \/>\nBeinisch, ruled that for the state to transfer authority for managing<br \/>\nthe prison to a private contractor whose aim is monetary profit would<br \/>\nseverely violate the prisoners&#8217; basic human rights to dignity and freedom.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t find a U.S. Jewish statement on private prisons, but Tomer Zarchin published this in Haaretz in Israel 20 November 2009: International legal precedent: No private prisons in Israel The High Court of Justice put an end to years of controversy Thursday by ruling that privately run prisons are unconstitutional. Following the decision, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1113,72,20,178],"tags":[8817,4843,4844,3346,8701,8730,4846,7,218,4845,6,8749],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cca","category-incarceration","category-law","category-vlcia","tag-cca","tag-dignity","tag-dorit-beinisch","tag-freedom","tag-georgia","tag-incarceration","tag-israel","tag-lowndes-county","tag-profit","tag-shekels","tag-valdosta","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","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=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}