{"id":6999,"date":"2017-01-22T05:04:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T11:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candoclemency.com\/?p=6999"},"modified":"2022-08-19T13:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:31:29","slug":"can-high-times-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/can-high-times-women\/","title":{"rendered":"CAN-DO in High Times &#8211; Where are the women?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On President Obama\u2019s last day in office, he granted another 330 commutations to nonviolent drug offenders, bringing his total number of clemencies to 1,715\u2014more than the last 12 presidents combined.<\/p>\n<p>But clemency advocates argue that Obama\u2019s clemency policy consistently overlooked one group: women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re upset he didn\u2019t increase the number of women prisoners, most of whom have perfect prison records and families,\u201d said Amy Povah, founder and director of the non-profit CAN-DO Foundation (Clemency for All Non-Violent Drug Offenders). <a href=\"http:\/\/hightimes.com\/news\/obamas-many-commutations-overlooked-women-inmates-say-advocates\/\">Read the whole story:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6996\" src=\"http:\/\/www.candoclemency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/HTimes-1-1024x329.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/HTimes-1-1024x329.png 1024w, https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/HTimes-1-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/HTimes-1-768x247.png 768w, https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/HTimes-1-1536x494.png 1536w, https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/HTimes-1.png 1580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-6997\" src=\"http:\/\/www.candoclemency.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/High-T-2-1024x765.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/High-T-2-1024x765.png 1024w, https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/High-T-2-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/High-T-2-768x574.png 768w, https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/High-T-2.png 1234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On President Obama\u2019s last day in office, he granted another 330 commutations to nonviolent drug offenders, bringing his total number of clemencies to 1,715\u2014more than the last 12 presidents combined. But clemency advocates argue that Obama\u2019s clemency policy consistently overlooked one group: women. \u201cWe\u2019re upset he didn\u2019t increase the number of women prisoners, most of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,4],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-6999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-can-do-media","category-can-do-news","tag-can-do-foundation"],"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Unknown-3.png",225,225,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Amy Ralston Povah","author_link":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/author\/candoamy\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":40,"name":"CAN-DO in the Media","slug":"can-do-media","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":40,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":199,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":40,"category_count":199,"category_description":"","cat_name":"CAN-DO in the Media","category_nicename":"can-do-media","category_parent":0},{"term_id":4,"name":"CAN-DO News","slug":"can-do-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":224,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":4,"category_count":224,"category_description":"","cat_name":"CAN-DO News","category_nicename":"can-do-news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":27,"name":"CAN-DO Foundation","slug":"can-do-foundation","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":27,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":461,"filter":"raw"}],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":40,"label":"CAN-DO in the Media"},{"value":4,"label":"CAN-DO News"}],"post_tag":[{"value":27,"label":"CAN-DO Foundation"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14744,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999\/revisions\/14744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheryanne.com\/cando-new2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}