{"id":2457908,"date":"2020-05-01T00:16:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T06:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/coronavirus-tests-dont-belong-behind-bars\/"},"modified":"2020-05-01T06:31:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T12:31:28","slug":"coronavirus-tests-dont-belong-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/coronavirus-tests-dont-belong-behind-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus tests don\u2019t belong behind bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"29\">\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Call me an ass; it\u2019s not the first time I\u2019ve heard it! \u201cButt\u201d I find it confusing why tax dollars are spent testing 472 inmates in Sterling prison, when so few in the \u201cfree\u201d world are being tested! (\u201c238 inmates positive for COVID at Sterling prison,\u201d April 29, The Aspen Times).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Convicted criminals lose most all rights and freedoms granted by the Constitution. Granted, they are still human beings. They are also in a controlled environment and can easily shelter at home\/cell. If they all get sick, so be it. Some will live and some will die, just like all of us! The odds of dying in prison by COVID are probably as good as the odds of getting shanked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Why not test more individuals on the outside? Test more first responders, more grocery store employees, more prison guards and more people interacting within the community trying to get back to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I have little sympathy for the inmates who chose to commit a crime, and lots of sympathy for individuals told to close their business and laborers told to stay at home without a paycheck.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">John Norman<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Carbondale<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"11.301724137931\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-7 pt-3 pb-4 at-4 pl-4\" readability=\"19.162045060659\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers around Aspen and Snowmass Village make the Aspen Times\u2019 work possible. Your financial contribution supports our efforts to deliver quality, locally relevant journalism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Now more than ever, your support is critical to help us keep our community informed about the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the impact it is having locally. Every contribution, however large or small, will make a difference.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Each donation will be used exclusively for the development and creation of increased news coverage.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <button class=\"btn\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickBelow()\">Donate<\/button><\/div>\n<p> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/coronavirus-tests-dont-belong-behind-bars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me an ass; it\u2019s not the first time I\u2019ve heard it! \u201cButt\u201d I find it confusing why tax dollars are spent testing 472 inmates in Sterling prison, when so few in the \u201cfree\u201d world are being tested! (\u201c238 inmates positive for COVID at Sterling prison,\u201d April 29, The Aspen Times). Convicted criminals lose most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 21:02:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457918,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457908\/revisions\/2457918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}