{"id":2262,"date":"2011-10-08T14:07:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T21:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/david-simon-the-wire\/"},"modified":"2011-10-08T14:07:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T21:07:34","slug":"david-simon-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/david-simon-the-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"David Simon (&#8220;The Wire&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/29805278?portrait=0\">A recent lecture by David Simon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very much worth seeing. He has his own perceptive that is coherent and thoughtful and based on his first hand experience. For me was able to shed some light on why the USA is the country with the biggest jail population. According to him 7% of inmates are there for violent crimes. Prisons are a profitable and growing business in the US. I don&#8217;t agree on his views in terms of labor. 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