{"id":8324,"date":"2020-06-12T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:08:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T21:08:29","slug":"the-bail-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/12\/the-bail-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bail Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend just pointed out <a href=\"https:\/\/bailproject.org\">The Bail Project<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t been thinking about how poor people are much more likely to rot in jail before a trial. Having not thought much about it, I assumed that bail amounts were being reasonably set and bail-bonds was a weird but more-or-less reasonable system to keep people from fleeing before their trial.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should do more thinking and less assuming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend just pointed out The Bail Project. I hadn&#8217;t been thinking about how poor people are much more likely to rot in jail before a trial. Having not thought much about it, I assumed that bail amounts were being reasonably set and bail-bonds was a weird but more-or-less reasonable system to keep people from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}