{"id":50592,"date":"2015-05-08T06:38:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T12:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/when-prisoners-are-profit-centers.html"},"modified":"2015-05-09T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T16:14:07","slug":"when-prisoners-are-profit-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/when-prisoners-are-profit-centers.html","title":{"rendered":"When Prisoners Are Profit Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody particularly wants prison life to be cushy, but making it cruel doesn&#39;t seem to be productive or effective. Contact with the outside world seems to be significantly correlated with reduced recidivism. It&#39;s something we should be encouraging, not turning into a way to fund prison budgets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2015\/05\/06\/3654931\/sheriffs-threaten-cut-off-prisoner-phone-calls-cant-get-kickbacks'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/J8D0buGwM_Og6jFbYsJjzmS9p0YyYwpaaSrDu5NY7Nj6jgXpA9KBDGWPN2MrcergaDuD80DONsYcHtUz016sQ9GaSt805nqc28CsEGfyC0wZoN4tNx5Cx8XtqTwzoAaHoH6JAU5x1p5HTA=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2015\/05\/06\/3654931\/sheriffs-threaten-cut-off-prisoner-phone-calls-cant-get-kickbacks'>Sheriffs Threaten Retaliation If The Price Of Prisoner Phone Calls Is Regulated<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;They&#8217;re monetizing human suffering and human captivity,&#8221; said editor Paul Wright with Prison Legal News.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/REPB8RP8399'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody particularly wants prison life to be cushy, but making it cruel doesn&#39;t seem to be productive or effective. Contact with the outside world seems to be significantly correlated with reduced recidivism. It&#39;s something we should be encouraging, not turning into a way to fund prison budgets. Sheriffs Threaten Retaliation If The Price Of Prisoner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/when-prisoners-are-profit-centers.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Prisoners Are Profit Centers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,715,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-crime-punishment","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29024,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/prison-camps-for-the-goose-are-prison-camps-for-the-gander.html","url_meta":{"origin":50592,"position":0},"title":"Prison camps for the goose are prison camps for the gander","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Aug-12 3:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that an Arizona pastor is serving time for building a church in his back yard (and lying, stonewalling, and prevaricating about it), folks are suddenly getting concerned over how brutal Sheriff\u00a0Joe Arpaio's prison camps are ... 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