{"id":12,"date":"2026-08-31T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/?p=12"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:03:41","slug":"americas-oldest-inmate-dies-at-101-after-seven-decades-behind-bars-his-unusual-prison-routine-draws-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Oldest Inmate Dies at 101 After Seven Decades Behind Bars \u2014 His Unusual Prison Routine Draws Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Francis Clifford Smith, believed to have been one of the longest-serving prisoners in the United States, died on June 25, 2026, at the age of 101. His life had been shaped for more than seven decades by a murder conviction, repeated legal appeals, a commuted death sentence, an escape, brief periods of parole, and eventually supervised release to a nursing facility. Smith spent the overwhelming majority of his adult life in the custody of the state of Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Clifford Smith, believed to have been one of the longest-serving prisoners in the United States, died on June 25, 2026, at the age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}