{"id":8643,"date":"2013-02-20T12:44:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8643"},"modified":"2013-02-20T12:44:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T17:44:38","slug":"speedy-justice-is-less-expensive-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8643","title":{"rendered":"Speedy justice is less expensive justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Church&#8217;s men&#8217;s group had the St. Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman drop by and talk to us last week. He spent a fair amount of time talking about the housing of prisoners at the jails and for good reason. The Trib <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/259259\/\">reports<\/a> that St. Louis County spent one and a half million extra last year paying for prisoner&#8217;s upkeep when the courts should have been finished with them. I presume that waste is sprinkled throughout the state in all 87 counties.<\/p>\n<p>The Courts, which have been underfunded by the legislature simply don&#8217;t have the manpower. I should know. I had a civil procedure drag out for a couple years due to under staffing despite having some of the best paid and most competent lawyers bird dogging the case.<\/p>\n<p>And this doesn&#8217;t even count prisoners who were incarcerated because of police dishonesty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Church&#8217;s men&#8217;s group had the St. Louis County Sheriff Ross Litman drop by and talk to us last week. He spent a fair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8644,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions\/8644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}