{"id":529,"date":"2012-02-28T19:45:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T00:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=529"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:18:09","slug":"compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2012\/02\/28\/compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion in California&#8217;s prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2012\/02\/26\/health\/Dementia\/Dementia-popup.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nPhoto via Todd Heisler\/The New York Time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Dementia in prison is an underreported but fast-growing phenomenon, one that many prisons are desperately unprepared to handle. It is an unforeseen consequence of get-tough-on-crime policies \u2014 long sentences that have created a large population of aging prisoners. About 10 percent of the 1.6 million inmates in America\u2019s prisons are serving life sentences; another 11 percent are serving over 20 years.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This week&#8217;s New York Times features an amazing story of compassion, caretaking and humanity in California&#8217;s prisons. Read the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/26\/health\/dealing-with-dementia-among-aging-criminals.html?_r=1\">here<\/a> and explore the heart-breaking photographs from inside the state&#8217;s DOC <a href=\"http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/25\/behind-bars-and-beginning-to-forget\/?scp=2&amp;sq=prison%20alzheimers&amp;st=cse\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo via Todd Heisler\/The New York Time. &#8220;Dementia in prison is an underreported but fast-growing phenomenon, one that many prisons are desperately unprepared to handle. It is an unforeseen consequence of get-tough-on-crime policies \u2014 long sentences that have created a large population of aging prisoners. About 10 percent of the 1.6 million inmates in America\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-prison-conditions","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}