{"id":643,"date":"2009-03-27T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/27\/ny-leaders-to-scrap-rockefeller-laws\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T15:11:00","slug":"ny-leaders-to-scrap-rockefeller-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/27\/ny-leaders-to-scrap-rockefeller-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"NY leaders to scrap Rockefeller laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, Governor David Paterson is appearing in Albany with Senate majority leader Malcolm Smith and Assembly leader Sheldon Silver to announce sweeping drug-law reforms.<\/p>\n<p>According to Paterson, Rockefeller mandatory minimum jail sentences were a failure and the state will now &#8220;eradicate this system, eliminate it and replace it with something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We will shift our services from punishment to treatment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The big question for the North Country?  What does this mean for more than a dozen prisons, which are a mainstay of the region&#8217;s economy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this, Governor David Paterson is appearing in Albany with Senate majority leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}