{"id":17972,"date":"2012-11-20T18:43:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T23:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17972"},"modified":"2012-11-20T18:43:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T23:43:40","slug":"torture-in-british-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/torture-in-british-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Torture in British prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-20417212\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All prisoners in England and Wales could be banned from watching channels such as Sky Sports in their cells, a government minister has indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Offenders in private prisons are able to access pay-TV channels for a small weekly fee, but inmates in publicly run jails can only watch free-to-air ones.<\/p>\n<p>Asked on Tuesday whether this would continue, Prisons Minister Jeremy Wright said &#8220;not for much longer&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The brutality of taking pay TV channels away from convicted criminals is a barbarity that defies belief. I am lost for words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: All prisoners in England and Wales could be banned from watching channels such as Sky Sports in their cells, a government minister has indicated. Offenders in private prisons are able to access pay-TV channels for a small weekly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/torture-in-british-prisons\/\">Continue reading <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":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[1255],"class_list":["post-17972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","tag-prisons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}