{"id":3630,"date":"2010-08-19T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T20:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2010-08-19T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T20:33:07","slug":"crime-is-down-thats-a-good-thing-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=3630","title":{"rendered":"Crime Is Down; That&#8217;s a Good Thing, Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/print\/2010\/09\/prison-without-walls\/8195\/\">Graeme Wood<\/a>, writing in The Atlantic:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[E]ven as crime has fallen, the sentences served by criminals have grown, thanks in large part to mandatory minimums and draconian three-strikes rules\u2014politically popular measures that have shown little deterrent effect but have left the prison system overflowing with inmates.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, we&#8217;ve been incarcerating more criminals, sentences are longer, and hence crime has fallen.&#160; That&#8217;s a <em>good<\/em> thing, right?<\/p>\n<p>Not according to Wood, who&#8217;s article starts with this sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Incarceration in America is a failure by almost any measure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so, um, I&#8217;m confused.&#160; What measure other than the crime rate is a better measure?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graeme Wood, writing in The Atlantic: [E]ven as crime has fallen, the sentences served by criminals have grown, thanks in large part to mandatory minimums and draconian three-strikes rules\u2014politically popular measures that have shown little deterrent effect but have left the prison system overflowing with inmates. So, we&#8217;ve been incarcerating more criminals, sentences are longer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-judiciary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}