\nAP wrote 10 March 2012,\n\nFirm offers states cash for prisons<\/a>,\n \n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The VDT, after following the local private prison story, picked up a national story about CCA’s offer to 48 state governors to buy their prisons. CCA is not getting any takers. AP wrote 10 March 2012, Firm offers states cash for prisons, Despite a need for cash, several states immediately slammed the door on the […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,1113,14,49,203,71,8,19,72,733,21,22,133,178],"tags":[8817,1086,8701,7,2923,8712,29,1297,69,6,8742,8749],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-economy","category-elections","category-florida","category-gdoc","category-georgia","category-history","category-incarceration","category-media","category-planning","category-politics","category-vdt","category-vlcia","tag-cca","tag-consequences","tag-georgia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-negative","tag-politics","tag-price","tag-private-prison","tag-publicity","tag-valdosta","tag-vdt","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-gt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nDespite a need for cash, several states immediately slammed the door\non the offer, a sign that privatizing prisons might not be as\npopular as it once was.\n<\/blockquote>\nDoesn’t seem very popular around here.\nMost people still don’t seem to have heard about the proposed\nlocal private prison,\nbut once they do, by far most say they are against it.\n
\nPrison departments in California, Texas and Georgia all dismissed the\nidea. Florida’s prison system said it doesn’t have the authority to make\nthat kind of decision and officials in CCA’s home state of Tennessee\nsaid they aren’t reviewing the proposal. The states refused to say why\nthey were rejecting the offer.\n<\/blockquote>\nGood for Georgia and the other states!\nGeorgia, where \nthe prison population is already plummeting.<\/a>\n
\n“Knowing the state government, it has to have something to do\n\n
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<\/a>\nwith the potential political backlash,” said Jeanne\nStinchcomb, a criminal justice professor at Florida Atlantic\nUniversity who has written two books on the corrections industry.\n“Privatization has reaped some negative publicity, so I can\nonly assume that despite the possible benefits, there would be a\nprice to pay for supporting it.”\n<\/blockquote>\nDo tell….\n