{"id":2971,"date":"2022-11-08T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2022-11-08T11:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:45:19","slug":"blind-justice-how-prison-is-leaving-travellers-isolated-and-traumatised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=2971","title":{"rendered":"Blind Justice: How prison is leaving Travellers isolated and traumatised"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">\u201cI WAS NEVER in trouble and I don\u2019t even understand why I went [to prison]\u2026 The judge looks at you in a different way. They think that when they see a Traveller, that they\u2019re going to be always in trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">Kathleen Wilde served her full sentence of six months in prison a number of years ago for an offence that she told <\/span><em><span style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">Noteworthy<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\"> the person she was with at the time committed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">\u201cI never touched anything. I was still blamed for it because I was there. Even though they had nothing on me, I still got jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">Looking back, Wilde said she was \u201cnever in trouble\u201d and doesn\u2019t understand why she even ended up in prison. She left that judges \u201clook at you in a different way\u201d, thinking that Travellers are \u201cgoing to be always in trouble\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff914d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/blind-justice-prison-5890179-Oct2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}