{"id":1556739,"date":"2024-03-16T02:15:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T02:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressive.org\/latest\/the-story-behind-the-prison-books-movement-bader-20240315\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T02:15:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T02:15:07","slug":"the-story-behind-the-prison-books-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/16\/the-story-behind-the-prison-books-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind the Prison Books Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"Books weren\u2019t allowed in prisons in the 1970s; since then, millions have been given to incarcerated people across the country.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/latest\/the-story-behind-the-prison-books-movement-bader-20240315\/\">The Progressive \u2014 A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books weren\u2019t allowed in prisons in the 1970s; since then, millions have been given to incarcerated people across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556848,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556739\/revisions\/1556848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}