{"id":7210,"date":"2004-03-20T09:45:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-20T14:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/03\/20\/stab-proof-vests-for-guards-nixed\/"},"modified":"2004-03-20T09:45:17","modified_gmt":"2004-03-20T14:45:17","slug":"stab-proof-vests-for-guards-nixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/03\/stab-proof-vests-for-guards-nixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Stab-proof vests for guards nixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">No it&#8217;s not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrappleface.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scrappleface<\/a> or from the pages of The Onion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">EDMONTON &#8212; Corrections Canada won&#8217;t let guards at maximum-security prisons wear stab-proof vests because it sends a confrontational &#8220;signal&#8221; to prisoners, says a department spokesman. &#8220;If you have that kind of presence symbolized by (a stab-proof vest), you&#8217;re sending a signal to the prisoner that you consider him to be a dangerous person,&#8221; said Tim Krause. &#8220;It interferes with what we call &#8216;dynamic security.&#8217; We want staff to talk to prisoners, to see how they&#8217;re doing.&#8221; <br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoe.ca\/NewsStand\/WinnipegSun\/News\/2004\/03\/18\/386081.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">A kinder gentler security guard.  &#8220;Thats a fine implement you have.  Did you make it yourself?  Good craftsmanship.  What did you call it, oh yeah, a shiv.  Make sure you don&#8217;t run with it. You might hurt yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No it&#8217;s not Scrappleface or from the pages of The Onion. EDMONTON &#8212; Corrections Canada won&#8217;t let guards at maximum-security prisons wear stab-proof vests because it sends a confrontational &#8220;signal&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}