{"id":1759,"date":"2014-04-11T21:40:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T01:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2014-09-30T07:58:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T11:58:21","slug":"john-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/11\/john-green\/","title":{"rendered":"John Green on mass incarceration, racial disparities and long sentence lengths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other half of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/vlogbrothers\">Vlog Brothers<\/a>, John Green, responds to his brother Hank&#8217;s amazing <a href=\"\/blog\/2014\/04\/05\/hank\/\">animated video about Mass Incarceration in the U.S.<\/a> with his own insightful comments on racial disparities in prison and the one of the key reasons why the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world: because sentences in this country are so much longer than for the same offense in other countries. <\/p>\n<p>The best part is from 0:47 to 1:35:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fF0sDJ6ZoxA?list=UUGaVdbSav8xWuFWTadK6loA&#038;start=47\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was also thrilled to see that one of John&#8217;s sources was this excellent article in <i>The Economist<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/democracyinamerica\/2014\/03\/americas-prison-population\">America&#8217;s prison population: Who, what, where and why<\/a> which was based on our briefing <a href=\"\/reports\/pie.html\">Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Green responds to Hank&#8217;s video about Mass Incarceration with his own insightful comments on racial disparities and why the U.S. has the world&#8217;s highest incarceration rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}