{"id":1071,"date":"2012-02-26T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T20:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/who-profits-from-ccas-private-prisons.html"},"modified":"2012-02-26T15:11:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T20:11:57","slug":"who-profits-from-ccas-private-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/who-profits-from-ccas-private-prisons.html","title":{"rendered":"Who profits from CCA&#8217;s private prisons?"},"content":{"rendered":"Who profits from taxpayer dollars that support private prisons?\nHere&#8217;s one example: CCA&#8217;s CEO.\n<p>\nJakada Imani wrote for HuffPost 23 February 2012,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jakada-imani\/private-prisons_b_1294607.html\">\nPrivate Prisons Profit From Pain<\/a>,\n<blockquote>\nCCA&#8217;s CEO Damon Hininger stands to benefit should the states provide\nhim with prisons well-stocked with prisoners. In 2010, for example,\nhis total compensation equaled $3,266,387.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat would be Damon Hininger, number 4 on\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2011\/02\/14\/most-powerful-ceos-40-under-leadership-leaders-young.html\">\nAmerica&#8217;s 20 Most Powerful CEOs 40 And Under<\/a>\n(by Jacquelyn Smith, 14 February 2012).\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2011\/02\/14\/most-powerful-ceos-40-under-leadership-leaders-young.html\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   width=\"242\" height=\"170\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/images.forbes.com\/media\/2011\/02\/14\/0214_damon-hininger_485x340.jpg\"><\/a>\n<blockquote>\n4. Damon T. Hininger\n<br>\nCorrections Corporation of America\n<br>\nMarket cap: $2.83 billion\n<br>\nAge: 40\n<br>\nIndustry: Property management\n<\/blockquote>\nHow do you like that euphemism?\n&#8220;Property management.&#8221;\nDoes that refer to the real estate, or to the prisoners?\nOr maybe to captive local government agencies that cede CCA\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/-what-kind-of-local-government-body-gives-a-private-company-absolute-discretion.html\">\n&#8220;absolute discretion&#8221;?<\/a>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who profits from taxpayer dollars that support private prisons? Here&#8217;s one example: CCA&#8217;s CEO. Jakada Imani wrote for HuffPost 23 February 2012, Private Prisons Profit From Pain, CCA&#8217;s CEO Damon Hininger stands to benefit should the states provide him with prisons well-stocked with prisoners. In 2010, for example, his total compensation equaled $3,266,387. That would [&hellip;]","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":[97,1113,14,2,72,178],"tags":[8817,2996,2858,2995,1060,2997,180,8749],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-economy","category-government","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-cca","tag-ceo","tag-corrections-corporation-of-america","tag-damon-hininger","tag-forbes","tag-property-management","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-hh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","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=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}