{"id":7389,"date":"2013-07-18T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=7389"},"modified":"2013-07-18T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T20:50:23","slug":"will-the-great-us-penal-reform-tip-the-balance-for-addicts-the-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2013\/07\/will-the-great-us-penal-reform-tip-the-balance-for-addicts-the-fix.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Will the Great US Penal Reform Tip the Balance for Addicts?&#8221;: The Fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>feature:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026Now, after decades of runaway incarceration fueled greatly by the War on Drugs, California is in the midst of what one expert calls \u201cthe biggest penal experiment in modern history,\u201d diverting tens of thousands of inmates from state prisons to local supervision. 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