CCA cares about “public acceptance of the Company’s services”

We already knew from

CCA’s 2010 report to the SEC

and from

CCA’s own video disparaging community opposition

that community opposition can affect CCAs ability to site a prison.
They said it yet another way back in 2009.

In the

17 August 2009 press release
about



Damon Hininger
being appointed CEO:

This press release contains statements as to the Company’s beliefs
and expectations of the outcome of future events that are
forward-looking statements as defined within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from the
statements made. These include, but are not limited to, the risks
and uncertainties associated with: (i) fluctuations in the Company’s
operating results because of, among other things, changes in
occupancy levels, competition, increases in cost of operations,
fluctuations in interest rates and risks of operations; (ii) changes

the risks
and uncertainties associated with: …

the public acceptance of the Company’s services,

the timing of the
opening of and demand for new prison facilities and the commencement
of new management contracts; (iii) the Company’s ability to obtain
and maintain correctional facility management contracts….

in the privatization of the corrections and detention industry,

the public acceptance of the Company’s services, the timing of the
opening of and demand for new prison facilities and the commencement
of new management contracts; (iii) the Company’s ability to obtain
and maintain correctional facility management contracts,
including
as a result of sufficient governmental appropriations and as a
result of inmate disturbances; (iv) increases in costs to construct
or expand correctional facilities that exceed original estimates, or
the inability to complete such projects on schedule as a result of
various factors, many of which are beyond the Company’s control,
such as weather, labor conditions and material shortages, resulting
in increased construction costs; and (v) general economic and market
conditions. Other factors that could cause operating and financial
results to differ are described in the filings made from time to
time by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

So maybe we should drum up some community opposition to
the private prison the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA)
wants CCA to build in Lowndes County, Georgia.
What ideas do you have to go beyond

the petition?

-jsq