{"id":1080,"date":"2012-02-23T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T15:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/lte-tell-the-industrial-authority-no-private-prison-john-s-quarterman.html"},"modified":"2012-02-23T10:48:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T15:48:32","slug":"lte-tell-the-industrial-authority-no-private-prison-john-s-quarterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/lte-tell-the-industrial-authority-no-private-prison-john-s-quarterman.html","title":{"rendered":"LTE: Tell the Industrial Authority No private prison &mdash;John S. Quarterman"},"content":{"rendered":"My LTE in the VDT today. -jsq\n<blockquote>\nIndustrial Authority Executive Director Andrea Schruijer told me to expect\ntheir board to say something at their 2PM Thursday board meeting about the\nprivate prison Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) wants to build\non US 84 at Perimeter Road.  If they don&#8217;t give CCA another extension,\nthe contract expires March 13th.\n<P>\nThere&#8217;s still time to contact them, (229) 259-9972.\nOr go to their board meeting at 101 North Ashley Street,\n2PM Thursday February 23rd.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/andrea-schruijer-executive-director-for-the-board-stop-the-cca-private-prison-aka-project-excel\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   width=\"118\" height=\"118\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/change-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/photos\/8\/oe\/vb\/YwOevBBwDsdQUBT-236x236-cropped.jpg?1321449685\"><\/a>\nA private prison would not increase employment in Lowndes County. It\nwould not even save the state money. And it would have high risk\nof closing after or even before it opened, because of escapes and\ninmate disturbances, and most importantly because the state and federal\ngovernments can no longer afford to incarcerate so many people. That would\nleave us and the state holding the bag for any investment in building it.\n<p>\nOutsourcing public justice for private profit at taxpayer expense is\nnot only bad business, we the taxpayers can&#8217;t afford to pay for it while\npublic education is under increasing budgetary pressure.\n<p>\nAs members of the local community, we do not wish to live in a private\nprison colony, with the attendant risks of inmate violence and escape,\nand the accompanying public opprobrium that would drive away the\nknowledge-based workers we claim to be trying to attract.\n<p>\nFinally, public justice should not be a matter of private profit.\n<p>\nJohn S. Quarterman\n<br>\nlives in Lowndes County\n<\/blockquote>\nYou may recognize the wording from the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/andrea-schruijer-executive-director-for-the-board-stop-the-cca-private-prison-aka-project-excel\">\npetition.<\/a>\nYou can always write your own letter with your own reasons.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My LTE in the VDT today. -jsq Industrial Authority Executive Director Andrea Schruijer told me to expect their board to say something at their 2PM Thursday board meeting about the private prison Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) wants to build on US 84 at Perimeter Road. 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