{"id":703,"date":"2021-02-01T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2021-05-25T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T00:01:35","slug":"prison-education-bill-seeks-to-provide-second-and-first-chances-to-washingtons-incarcerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/2021\/02\/01\/prison-education-bill-seeks-to-provide-second-and-first-chances-to-washingtons-incarcerated\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison education bill seeks to provide second \u2014 and first \u2014 chances to Washington\u2019s incarcerated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington could soon be introducing new education for incarcerated populations. <\/p>\n<p>House Bill 1044, sponsored by Rep. Mari Leavitt (D-University Place), is the latest in a series of measures seeking to expand education access for imprisoned Washingtonians. \u201cNinety-five percent of incarcerated folks are released, and it\u2019s critical that they have a skill in order to get back,\u201d Leavitt said. \u201cThe data shows that educational programs are one of the proven ways to reduce recidivism rates.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington could soon be introducing new education for incarcerated populations. House Bill 1044, sponsored by Rep. Mari Leavitt (D-University Place), is the latest in a series of measures seeking to expand education access for imprisoned Washingtonians. \u201cNinety-five percent of incarcerated folks are released, and it\u2019s critical that they have a skill in order to get &hellip; <a class=\"more\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyuw.com\/news\/article_26ad37d2-644e-11eb-8948-7fd0f1ec35f3.html\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marileavitt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}