{"id":198,"date":"2006-09-20T19:00:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T23:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2006-09-20T19:00:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T23:00:54","slug":"a-prison-statistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"A prison statistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed a horrible little story in the local paper. A 40 year old woman has just spent 134 days in Holloway Prison, an exceedingly nasty place, because she had been found incapably drunk in Braintree. She was at the time serving a <em>six year<\/em>  <span class=\"caps\">ASBO <\/span>which prohibited her from being either drunk in a public place, or shouting and using abusive words.<\/p>\n\n<p>When she finally came up to the Crown Court, she was given a year&#8217;s probation.<\/p>\n\n<p>Now God knows that journalists never become alcoholics, and, even when they are drunk, never behave badly in public. We are prone to other crimes. One of my former colleagues from the <em>Independent<\/em> was caught downloading child pornography; another beat his wife up very badly. Both of them were  sentenced to three months in jail, which means that they actually served six weeks.<\/p>\n\n<p>Yet this pathetic alcoholic, Gillian Crow, spent <em>more than four months<\/em> in jail on remand for being drunk and obnoxious. I don&#8217;t see justice here, nor joined up government.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed a horrible little story in the local paper. A 40 year old woman has just spent 134 days in Holloway Prison, an exceedingly nasty place, because she had been found incapably drunk in Braintree. She was at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=198\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=198\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}