{"id":256,"date":"2013-03-25T10:26:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/whatsnew\/?p=256"},"modified":"2013-04-03T15:29:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T19:29:01","slug":"letter-to-ma-dept-of-corrections-families-shouldnt-be-screened-by-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/letter-to-ma-dept-of-corrections-families-shouldnt-be-screened-by-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to MA Dept. of Corrections: Families shouldn&#8217;t be screened by dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Department of Corrections plans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C61E2YdqxWk\">begin using drug sniffing dogs<\/a> to screen families and friends who come to visit loved ones in prison. We submitted <a href=\"\/articles\/dogs.html\">a letter<\/a> urging Department of Corrections Commissioner Louis Spencer to halt this harmful and degrading policy in its tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Department of Corrections plans to begin using drug sniffing dogs to screen families and friends who come to visit loved ones in prison. We submitted a letter urging Department of Corrections Commissioner Louis Spencer to halt this harmful and degrading policy in its tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}