{"id":62551,"date":"2017-03-29T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62551"},"modified":"2017-03-28T19:36:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T00:36:06","slug":"mixed-messages-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62551","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, I do believe that rehabilitation makes sense; once\u00a0<em>most\u00a0<\/em>people get out of their 20s and 30s, the small-brain hormonal impulsiveness behind a fair portion of crime starts to fade just a bit, and long-term prisoners need\u00a0<em>something\u00a0<\/em>to replace that part of their lives with.<\/p>\n<p>So the prison college program hignlighted on NPR earlier this week would\u00a0<em>seem\u00a0<\/em>to make some sense.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the sound bite of one of the classes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professor Delia Mellis teaches a modern U.S. history class and, when I arrive, 18 men dressed in green jumpsuits are discussing sexual identity politics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s saying that; I think he&#8217;s making a distinction between it being gay acts \u2014 homosexual acts \u2014 and it being a gay identity,&#8221; one student interjects.<\/p>\n<p>Mellis responds, &#8220;That&#8217;s absolutely his central idea, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;makes it clear that retribution and revenge would seem to be part of the goal, still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, I do believe that rehabilitation makes sense; once\u00a0most\u00a0people get out of their 20s and 30s, the small-brain hormonal impulsiveness behind a fair portion of crime starts to fade just a bit, and long-term prisoners need\u00a0something\u00a0to replace that part of their lives with. So the prison college program hignlighted on NPR earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62552,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62551\/revisions\/62552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}