{"id":1934,"date":"2019-04-13T19:54:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T19:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2019-04-13T19:54:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T19:54:32","slug":"treatment-in-lieu-of-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1934","title":{"rendered":"Treatment in lieu of incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cupp-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cupp-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cupp-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Cupp.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Ohio District 4 House of Representative&#8217;s <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I attended a keynote speech at a Criminal Justice Education Conference at Ohio Northern University.  Representative Robert Cupp said the House was working on a bill to make 4th and 5th degree felonies misdemeanors in some cases that involved drugs and alcohol.  He said the prevailing thought is that &#8216;treatment in lieu of incarceration&#8217; is often better for the criminal, and the community.  The belief is that if the drug and\/or alcohol problem isn&#8217;t dealt with, the recidivism rate will continue to be high for addicts\/alcoholics.  I would agree.  For more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/joe-the-counselor\">my take<\/a> on addiction in society in general, see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a keynote speech at a Criminal Justice Education Conference at Ohio Northern University. Representative Robert Cupp said the House was working on a bill to make 4th and 5th degree felonies misdemeanors in some cases that involved drugs <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1934\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}