{"id":10487,"date":"2012-06-20T22:05:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T03:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=10487"},"modified":"2017-11-10T23:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T18:18:32","slug":"no-justice-for-all-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/no-justice-for-all-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"No Justice for All (in the USA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinecriminaljusticedegree.com\/no-justice-for-all\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10488\" title=\"no-justice-for-all\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/no-justice-for-all.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"3495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">(from almost anywhere in the <em>Incarcerated States of America<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve blogged about this before, so please forgive me if this sounds like a broken record (those over 50 may actually &#8220;get&#8221; that reference). I find it incredible (literally) that the nation that wraps itself in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Star-Spangled_Banner\" target=\"_blank\">flag<\/a> of <em>&#8220;Land of the free, Home of the brave.&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Incarceration\" target=\"_blank\">imprisons more of its citizens<\/a> by far than any other nation on earth. With only 5% of the world\u2019s population the U.S. boasts 25% of the world\u2019s incarcerated population&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Thanks to Linda at the Online Criminal Justice Degree who provided me with the very effective info-graphic shown above.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">[My father was a pacifist pulpiter, so I rant about things like this quite naturally\u2014is that a valid excuse? He taught me maxims such as \u201cif you live by the sword, expect to die by the sword,\u201d and \u201cyou can tell a tree by its fruit\u2026\u201d Geez, that sounds self-righteous!]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from almost anywhere in the Incarcerated States of America) I&#8217;ve blogged about this before, so please forgive me if this sounds like a broken record (those over 50 may actually &#8220;get&#8221; that reference). I find it incredible (literally) that the nation that wraps itself in the flag of &#8220;Land of the free, Home of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,12,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15371,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions\/15371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}