{"id":15796,"date":"2015-02-08T10:12:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T15:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15796"},"modified":"2015-02-08T10:12:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T15:12:56","slug":"slate-why-are-so-many-americans-in-prison-a-provocative-new-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15796","title":{"rendered":"Slate: Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? A provocative new theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/crime\/2015\/02\/mass_incarceration_a_provocative_new_theory_for_why_so_many_americans_are.single.html\">Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? A provocative new theory<\/a> by Leon Neyfakh:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Criminal justice reform is a contentious political issue, but there\u2019s one point on which pretty much everyone agrees: America\u2019s prison population is way too high. It\u2019s possible that a decline has already begun, with the number of state and federal inmates dropping for three years straight starting in 2010, from an all-time high of 1.62 million in 2009 to about 1.57 million in 2012. But change has been slow: Even if the downward trend continues, which is far from guaranteed, it could take almost 90 years for the country\u2019s prison population to get down to where it was in 1980 unless the rate of decline speeds up significantly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: Why Are So Many Americans in Prison? A provocative new theory by Leon Neyfakh: Criminal justice reform is a contentious political issue, but there\u2019s one point on which pretty much everyone agrees: America\u2019s prison population is way too high. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15796\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15797,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions\/15797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}