{"id":38,"date":"2018-09-14T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justtalk.blog\/?p=38"},"modified":"2018-09-16T12:19:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T12:19:35","slug":"whose-white-at-the-bc-jail-we-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/whose-white-at-the-bc-jail-we-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose White at the BC Jail? We Don&#8217;t Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>African-Americans are about 5% of the county population; they are about 30% of the Broome County Jail&#8217;s population. Inquiring minds wondered:\u00a0 does the correctional staff of the jail relate?\u00a0 Do the stories we hear of white nationalism run rampant in the jail, as in testimony before the State House of Assembly, have any substance?<\/p>\n<p>Looking for the most basic facts we asked the county:\u00a0 what is the racial and ethnic character of the Sheriff&#8217;s correlational officers? The response on February 2017 to a freedom of information request was:\u00a0 we don&#8217;t know, we don&#8217;t keep those records. This is nothing new: as the local press keeps reporting, it is widely known the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/11\/27\/state-ny-release-cmc-correctional-medical-care-reports-jails-medical-contractors-refuses\/816837001\/\">State<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/story\/news\/local\/2017\/05\/05\/bending-open-records-laws-ny-foil-foia\/101317462\/\">County<\/a>\u00a0 refuse to release the most basic information especially about the jail.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, the Sheriff <em>does<\/em> have to compile and file a report with these figures to the national census of jails.\u00a0 Tracked down through the Department of Justice (another FOIA request) here are the results for the 2013 filing by the BC Sheriff, who apparently \u201clost\u201d his filing:\u00a0 the correctional staff is 97.5% white.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African-Americans are about 5% of the county population; they are about 30% of the Broome County Jail&#8217;s population. Inquiring minds wondered:\u00a0 does the correctional staff of the jail relate?\u00a0 Do the stories we hear of white nationalism run rampant in the jail, as in testimony before the State House of Assembly, have any substance? Looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justtalk.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}