{"id":91065,"date":"2025-06-25T16:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91065"},"modified":"2025-06-25T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:35:19","slug":"after-peaking-at-1-6-million-americans-in-2009-the-prison-population-was-1-2-million-at-the-end-of-2023-on-track-to-fall-to-about-600000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91065","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAfter peaking at \u2026 1.6 million Americans in 2009, the prison population was \u2026 1.2 million at the end of 2023 \u2026 on track to fall to about 600,000\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2025\/06\/prisoner-populations-are-plummeting\/683310\/\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2025\/06\/prisoner-populations-are-plummeting\/683310\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe principal political barrier to closing half-full prisons is the power of public-sector unions. In contrast, a private prison can be sent to its reward if its contract is canceled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a well reported piece<\/p>\n<p>I suspect MAGA will reverse the decline. But still impressive. Demographics plays a role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2025\/06\/prisoner-populations-are-plummeting\/683310\/ \u201cThe principal political barrier to closing half-full prisons is the power of public-sector unions. In contrast, a private prison can be sent to its reward if its contract is canceled.\u201d This is a well reported piece I suspect MAGA &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=91065\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-91065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91066,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91065\/revisions\/91066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}