{"id":346,"date":"2011-11-21T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T01:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=346"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:18:48","slug":"a-reporter-in-a-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2011\/11\/21\/a-reporter-in-a-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"A reporter in a prison: view from Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/c.o0bg.com\/rf\/image_960w\/Boston\/2011-2020\/2011\/07\/18\/BostonGlobe.com\/Metro\/Images\/dearing_062811_28prisonwalpole_0119_MET.jpg\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"576\" height=\"372\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo by Jessey Dearing for the Boston Globe<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nReporter David Abel visited Massachusetts prisons to try to break down the barriers of consciousness that prisons raise about prisoners&#8217; daily environment and experience. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2011\/11\/14\/inside-look-massachusetts-prison-life\/pCM2p6X4Hfcs51gAPR8vUO\/story.html\">Here<\/a>, he describes the grimness of his experience dressing in prisoners&#8217; clothes and sleeping on the other side of the walls, despite the absence for him of what are probably the most defining aspects of the experience of incarceration&#8211; involuntary, long-term commitment, extreme power disparities, racism, and abuse, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Jessey Dearing for the Boston Globe Reporter David Abel visited Massachusetts prisons to try to break down the barriers of consciousness that prisons raise about prisoners&#8217; daily environment and experience. Here, he describes the grimness of his experience dressing in prisoners&#8217; clothes and sleeping on the other side of the walls, despite the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","category-prison-conditions","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}