{"id":991,"date":"2010-03-16T21:14:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=429"},"modified":"2010-03-16T21:14:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:14:38","slug":"legal-help-for-the-indigent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"legal help for the indigent…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I talked with Brandon Hollis from the Georgia Justice Project<\/em> \u00a0while in Atlanta.<\/em> \u00a0 This is a non-profit organization that was started in the late 1980s. \u00a0 They currently represent 30 prisoners spread throughout 22 prisons in Georgia. \u00a0 The project is designed to help indigent prisoners who can’t afford legal counsel. \u00a0 Mr. Hollis makes regular visits to get background information and assess the needs of the prisoners. \u00a0 He said a common denominator among most of these prisoners is that they come from poor settings and seldom had a father at home. \u00a0 One of the prisoners has currently in prison for 29 years. \u00a0 He was sentenced at age 14, for murder. \u00a0 Mr. Hollis said that while what his agency does \u00a0 helps cut down on recidivism rates and helps make society safer; it, however, is essential that we look at — and change — the systemic factors (poverty, racism, broken families…) leading to so much of this crime. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Mr. Hollis also told me he just finished reading the book Them<\/strong><\/em> by Nathan McCall. \u00a0 It is about the trend toward more and more “gentrification” of urban areas in America. \u00a0 And as the “gentry” move back in, the homeless and others on the margins are forced out… After the interview, our family happened across the “5-Points” area of Atlanta, where this gentrification \u00a0has been \u00a0going on in a big way (“young urban professionals” — yuppies — everywhere, upscale eateries, fancy shops…), and not a homeless person, or any low income housing for that matter, \u00a0in sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talked with Brandon Hollis from the Georgia Justice Project \u00a0while in Atlanta. \u00a0 This is a non-profit organization that was started in the late 1980s. \u00a0 They currently represent 30 prisoners spread throughout 22 prisons in Georgia. \u00a0 The …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/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-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","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=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}