{"id":9202,"date":"2021-01-16T18:35:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3118046\/united-states-prisons-locked-down-run-joe-bidens"},"modified":"2021-01-16T18:35:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:35:35","slug":"united-states-prisons-locked-down-in-run-up-to-joe-bidens-presidential-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/16\/united-states-prisons-locked-down-in-run-up-to-joe-bidens-presidential-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"United States prisons locked down in run-up to Joe Biden\u2019s presidential inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"All federal prisons in the United States have been placed on lockdown, with officials aiming to quell any potential violence that could arise behind bars as law enforcement prepares for potentially violent protests across the country in the run-up to President-elect Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration on Wednesday.The lockdown at more than 120 federal Bureau of Prisons facilities took effect at 12am local time on Saturday, according to an email to employees from the president of the union representing\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3118046\/united-states-prisons-locked-down-run-joe-bidens\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All federal prisons in the United States have been placed on lockdown, with officials aiming to quell any potential violence that could arise behind bars as law enforcement prepares for potentially violent protests across the country in the run-up to P&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":802,"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\/9202"}],"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\/802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9203,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202\/revisions\/9203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}