{"id":189,"date":"2010-05-09T12:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T16:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/whatsnew\/?p=189"},"modified":"2017-12-10T17:39:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T22:39:54","slug":"quoted-in-patriot-ledger-quincy-mass-on-states-counter-productive-plan-to-charge-prisoners-for-their-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/09\/quoted-in-patriot-ledger-quincy-mass-on-states-counter-productive-plan-to-charge-prisoners-for-their-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"Quoted in Patriot Ledger, Quincy Mass on state&#8217;s counter-productive plan to charge prisoners for their incarceration."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Wagner is quoted in the <em>Patriot Ledger<\/em> regarding Mass.&#8217;s plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100522224709\/http:\/\/www.patriotledger.com\/news\/state_news\/x1560849233\/Masschusetts-sets-out-to-bill-prison-inmates-for-room-and-board\">bill prison inmates for room and board<\/a>. Because most people in prison are poor, this counter-productive policy &#8220;is like spending money to squeeze blood from a stone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Wagner is quoted in the Patriot Ledger regarding Mass.&#8217;s plan to bill prison inmates for room and board. Because most people in prison are poor, this counter-productive policy &#8220;is like spending money to squeeze blood from a stone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[11],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","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=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6749,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/6749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}