{"id":732,"date":"2009-05-05T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/05\/a-future-without-prisons\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T10:25:00","slug":"a-future-without-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/05\/a-future-without-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"A future without prisons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/0201_editorials\/local_story_124232613.html\">must-read editorial today<\/a>, describing the history of the North Country&#8217;s prison system and predicting a murky future.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re probably going to have to close prisons,&#8221; Sen. Betty Little, Stafford&#8217;s successor, admitted during an interview last week with the Press-Republican Editorial Board.<\/p>\n<p>She suggests closing Sing Sing, which sits on valuable land on the Hudson River in Westchester County, because the land could be put to better use.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, a battle for survival is very likely going to be waged by Little and others as budgets and changing prison populations exert their weight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The P-R&#8217;s editorial team urges local leaders to begin planning for a different (read: fewer prisons) future in the post-Rockefeller drug law era.<\/p>\n<p>Camp Gabriels near Saranac Lake goes dark in July. So what do you think? Can our towns survive without all those Corrections Officer jobs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican has must-read editorial today, describing the history of the North Country&#8217;s prison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732"}],"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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}