{"id":422,"date":"2008-04-01T17:34:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T22:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indefenseofthefaith.org\/?p=422"},"modified":"2008-04-01T17:39:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T22:39:08","slug":"laugh-at-it-but-you-really-are-funding-prison-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Laugh at it, but you really are funding prison rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times has a very disturbing article on the reality and frequency of rape within prisons. Unfortunately, our culture thinks that it&#8217;s always okay to joke about that issue in the terms of &#8220;dropping the soap&#8221;, etc. Given this cultural insensitivity, I say bravo to the LA Times for bringing this to our attention and shame on all of us for joking and taking this topic so lightly!<\/p>\n<p>Here is the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-op-klein30mar30,0,2240882.story\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s nothing funny about prison rape<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>May God grant mercy to our prisons and may a new way a rehabilitation and a true understanding of &#8220;prison&#8221; be re-established in our united states. Prison, for those who can be released into the world after serving their time, should be about redemption, not merely retribution and punishment.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested in someone who has tried their best to help our prisons change, visit Chuck Colson&#8217;s minstiry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfm.org\/Bio.asp?ID=43\" target=\"_blank\">a link<\/a> to their &#8220;about&#8221; page.<\/p>\n<p>In Christ and In Defense of the Faith,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times has a very disturbing article on the reality and frequency of rape within prisons. Unfortunately, our culture thinks that it&#8217;s always okay to joke about that issue in the terms of &#8220;dropping the soap&#8221;, etc. Given this cultural insensitivity, I say bravo to the LA Times for bringing this to our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/?p=422\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Laugh at it, but you really are funding prison rape<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-law-and-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indefenseofthefaith.org\/idotf\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}