{"id":433,"date":"2008-04-04T13:38:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/2008\/04\/04\/one-last-thought-about-singapore-politics\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:38:22","slug":"one-last-thought-about-singapore-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"One last thought about Singapore politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A train I rode on towards the end of my stay was full of these door-hangers recruiting for the prison service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/prison-recruitment-side-a.jpg\" title=\"prison-recruitment-side-a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/prison-recruitment-side-a.jpg\" alt=\"prison-recruitment-side-a.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/prison-recruitment-side-b.jpg\" title=\"prison-recruitment-side-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/prison-recruitment-side-b.jpg\" alt=\"prison-recruitment-side-b.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My first reaction was to be terrified that Singapore has a &#8216;compelling vision&#8217; about incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; at least they&#8217;re claiming that their prisons are good for their prisoners.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve heard the word &#8216;rehabilitation&#8217; used in that context in the US since the 1970&#8217;s.\u00a0 Which is more evil &#8212; prisons as tools of reform, or prisons as tools of punishment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A train I rode on towards the end of my stay was full of these door-hangers recruiting for the prison service. My first reaction was to be terrified that Singapore has a &#8216;compelling vision&#8217; about incarceration. But&#8230; at least they&#8217;re &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=433\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}