{"id":63143,"date":"2015-12-08T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63143"},"modified":"2015-12-07T18:22:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T23:22:01","slug":"veterans-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63143","title":{"rendered":"Veterans behind bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medic09 sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2015\/12\/07\/458501774\/defying-stereotypes-number-of-incarcerated-veterans-in-u-s-drops\">National Public Radio<\/a>, surprisingly, which reports on a US Bureau of Prison survey which focused on military veterans doing time. The results are that veterans are less likely to be in jail than non-veterans. In 1978, when the BoP started keeping records, that wasn&#8217;t the way &#8211; veterans were more likely to be imprisoned than the rest of folks. But, that was probably because of the draft which had ended just a few years before. NPR also credits &#8220;veterans&#8217; courts&#8221; for the decline.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that combat veterans are less likely to be prison inmates than non-combat veterans. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those veterans in prisons and jails reported higher rates than civilians of mental health issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Less than a third of veterans behind bars actually saw combat, but those who did also reported higher rates of mental health issues, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>On average, veterans doing time are almost 12 years older than nonveterans and are less likely to have multiple previous offenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I noticed that the survey used self-reported PTS, not actual diagnoses and all criminals who are also veterans claim that they committed their crime because of PTS, even though actual PTS doesn&#8217;t make you engage in criminal behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medic09 sends us a link to National Public Radio, surprisingly, which reports on a US Bureau &hellip; <a title=\"Veterans behind bars\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63143\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veterans behind bars<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}