{"id":1122,"date":"2012-02-08T13:03:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/decatur-county-newspaper-wants-more-prisoners-who-compete-with-local-wo-rkers.html"},"modified":"2012-02-08T13:03:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T18:03:36","slug":"decatur-county-newspaper-wants-more-prisoners-who-compete-with-local-wo-rkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/decatur-county-newspaper-wants-more-prisoners-who-compete-with-local-wo-rkers.html","title":{"rendered":"Decatur County newspaper wants more prisoners who compete with local wo rkers"},"content":{"rendered":"The Decatur County newspaper brags about prisoners competing with free labor,\nwhile\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/how-can-both-lowndes-and-decatur-counties-think-theyre-getting-a-private-prison.html\">\nhelping try to attract another prison.<\/a>\n<p>\nBrennan Leathers wrote for the Post-Searchlight 3 January 2010,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepostsearchlight.com\/2012\/01\/03\/walls-going-up-at-new-ag-building\/\">\nWalls going up at new ag building<\/a>,\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepostsearchlight.com\/2012\/01\/03\/walls-going-up-at-new-ag-building\/\">\n<img style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   width=\"300\"\nheight=\"200\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.thepostsearchlight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_9247.jpg\"><\/a>\nWork on Decatur County&#8217;s new agricultural office building is quickly\nprogressing, with interior walls being put up and the installation\nof a roof soon to follow.\n<p>\nDecatur County Prison inmates with carpentry and construction\nexperience were working hard last Friday, putting up the interior\nwalls inside the 9,724-square-foot building under construction near\nthe Cloud Agricultural Building off Vada Road.\n<\/blockquote>\nWhich means some local workers with carpentry and construction\nexperience were <em>not<\/em> working on that project.\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 decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/change-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/photos\/8\/oe\/vb\/YwOevBBwDsdQUBT-236x236-cropped.jpg?1321449685\"><\/a>\nDo we want a private prison in Lowndes County so more prisoners\ncan compete with local workers here, too?\nIf you don&#8217;t think so, remember\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/09\/cca-really-doesnt-like-community-opposition-so-apparently-it-works.html\">\nCCA says community opposition<\/a>\ncan impede private prison site selection.<\/a>\nHere&#8217;s a\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/andrea-schruijer-executive-director-for-the-board-stop-the-cca-private-prison-aka-project-excel\">\npetition urging the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority\nto stop the CCA private prison.<\/a>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Decatur County newspaper brags about prisoners competing with free labor, while helping try to attract another prison. 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