{"id":3884,"date":"2018-01-25T12:11:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T12:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:13:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:13:41","slug":"the-shocking-state-of-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/01\/25\/the-shocking-state-of-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"The shocking state of prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the latest damning reports on the state of prisons in Liverpool and Nottingham, prisons expert and Professor of Criminology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr\/staff\/academic\/j-k\/jewkes-yvonne.html\">Yvonne Jewkes<\/a> commented &#8216;<em>The Dickensian images being conjured up by the press with regard to conditions at Liverpool and Nottingham prisons are\u00a0truly shocking\u00a0and suggest that prisons have reached\u00a0a point of crisis never experienced before \u2013 or at least not in living memory<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>For further information read the University&#8217;s News Centre article &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/16599\/expert-comment-english-prisons-nothing-short-of-a-catastrophe\">Expert comment: English prisons \u2013 nothing short of a catastrophe<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the latest damning reports on the state of prisons in Liverpool and Nottingham, prisons expert and Professor of Criminology Yvonne Jewkes commented &#8216;The Dickensian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2018\/01\/25\/the-shocking-state-of-prisons\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[43783,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3886,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}