{"id":366190,"date":"2010-02-26T11:47:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f21\/early-prison-release-programs-recipe-political-disaster-40055\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T16:47:31","slug":"early-prison-release-programs-recipe-for-political-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/366190","title":{"rendered":"Early prison release programs: Recipe for political disaster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Early prison release programs: Recipe for political disaster?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A backlash over an Oregon law that allows inmates to trim as much as 30 percent from their sentences via expanded &quot;earned-time credits&quot; shows some political pitfalls when policy changes open prison doors earlier, reports Stateline.org. California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, and Wisconsin are among other states that have  accelerated prisoner releases or may do so. Victims&#8217; advocates attacked Oregon&#8217;s law as a threat to public safety; prosecutors and the Democratic state attorney general say the law goes too far and that inmates should be able to shave no more than 15 percent off their sentences, as the federal government allows. <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lapd.com\/r\/51098\/127738\/0\" >The Crime Report<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early prison release programs: Recipe for political disaster? A backlash over an Oregon law that allows inmates to trim as much as 30 percent from their sentences via expanded &quot;earned-time credits&quot; shows some political pitfalls when policy changes open prison doors earlier, reports Stateline.org. California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, and Wisconsin are among other states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}