{"id":19499,"date":"2018-09-08T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=81075e2f7ad0a5be806cbf48e2268a7e"},"modified":"2018-09-08T07:00:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T07:00:54","slug":"the-messy-truth-about-victim-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2018\/09\/08\/the-messy-truth-about-victim-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Messy Truth About Victim Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>Victim compensation funds are supposed to help victims of crime cover lost wages or funeral expenses. But Reveal teamed up with The Marshall Project and discovered that in some states, African Americans are disproportionately hurt by rules on how that money is handed out.<\/p>\n\n<p>Then, Reveal reporters Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter uncover a scheme at a drug rehabilitation facility in the mountains of North Carolina, where clients are being used as a source of free labor.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>Don\u2019t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revealnews.org\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" >today<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.prx.org\/stories\/253253\">Reveal<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Victim compensation funds are supposed to help victims of crime cover lost wages or funeral expenses. But Reveal teamed up with The Marshall Project and discovered that in some states, African Americans are disproportionately hurt by rules on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,4524,4108],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499"}],"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\/1377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19500,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19499\/revisions\/19500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}