Former Sheriff Paulk luke-warm; Sheriff Prine completely opposed.
Water and sewer, wetlands, federal funding: all hurdles, says Paulk.
Sheriff’s Association also opposed, says Prine.
More in the VDT article.

Lowndes County Sheriff Chris Prine has also shared his thoughts
on the private prison industry:

“If I’m going to house an inmate and if I’m going to be responsible,
I’d rather them be in my facility not a private prison,”
said Prine.
“If I’m going to be responsible for them
I want them to be within my reach.
the Sheriff’s Association
feels the same way I do.
I’d say the large majority of Sheriff’s feel the same way about this.
I don’t want a private facility handling my prisoners.”

Here’s

video of Sheriff Prine saying most of that a few weeks ago.

They also mentioned

the petition
and
quoted me:

“If those signatures and calls are making any impression
on the Authority they certainly don’t admit to it,”
said Quarterman.
“This is another Lofton (Brad Lofton, former
Authority executive director) project.
It’d be nice if the Industrial Authority represented the community
they were located in.”

Do you want the Industrial Authority to notice?
You can sign the

the petition,
or send VLCIA your own letter,
or write a letter to the editor to the VDT, or….

-jsq