{"id":3786,"date":"2007-06-26T13:07:38","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T12:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3786"},"modified":"2007-06-26T13:07:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T12:07:38","slug":"the-reason-is-the-healthy-food-served-by-hare-krishnas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=3786","title":{"rendered":"The reason is the healthy food served by Hare Krishnas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By the Herald Sun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>INMATES at a jail in southern India are eating so well many are reluctant to leave and other convicted criminals are trying to move in.<\/p>\n<p>The Parappana Agrahara prison in Bangalore is crowded with 4700 inmates, more than twice its capacity, because petty criminals are refusing to apply for bail, the Bangalore Mirror says. <\/p>\n<p>Juvenile offenders are also overstating their age to qualify as adults and get in. <\/p>\n<p>The reason is the healthy food served by Hare Krishnas, who began serving pure vegetarian fare on May 21, under contract from the prisons department. <\/p>\n<p>Lunch and dinner typically include piping hot rice, two vegetables and a spicy lentil dish called sambar and buttermilk. A dessert is added on festival days and national holidays like Independence Day, and also once a week. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we are getting tasty, nutritious food three times a day here, why should we go out and commit crimes?&#8221; said prisoner Raja Reddy, who has been arrested 20 times in<br \/>\n30 years for theft, robbery and burglary. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our going out of the prison will only benefit pawnbrokers who purchase stolen items at a throwaway price from us, advocates who fleece us to fight our case and the police who collect bribes.&#8221;  &#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/crims-try-to-curry-favour-_.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By The Herald Sun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> INMATES at a jail in southern India are eating so well many are reluctant to leave and other convicted criminals are trying to move in.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}