{"id":994,"date":"2004-09-28T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=994"},"modified":"2004-09-28T08:51:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T15:51:00","slug":"observations-on-the-news-smoking-in-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=994","title":{"rendered":"Observations on the News: Smoking in Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/HEALTH\/09\/28\/smoking.ban.reut\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">to CNN<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who set up a tent outside his smoke-free state office to accommodate his taste for a good cigar, signed a bill Monday barring tobacco from state prisons. The measure amends the state&#8217;s penal code to bar tobacco products from prisons and youth correctional facilities. Violators are subject to a fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Got that. A fine.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we couldn&#8217;t put them in jail for it. Of course, where are they going to get the money to pay a fine. If they don&#8217;t pay, what happens? Jail, I guess. Guess it isn&#8217;t a maximum security penalty either.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, I&#8217;m a felon on death row. Smoke a cig. Go to minimum security because I couldn&#8217;t pay the fine.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like our priorities are misplaced here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to CNN: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who set up a tent outside his smoke-free state office to accommodate his taste for a good cigar, signed a bill Monday barring tobacco from state prisons. The measure amends the state&#8217;s penal code to bar tobacco products from prisons and youth correctional facilities. Violators are subject to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=994\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[191],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer","tag-observations-2004"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}