{"id":1367,"date":"2011-10-20T16:34:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T20:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/private-prisons-matt-flumerfelt.html"},"modified":"2011-10-20T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T20:34:42","slug":"private-prisons-matt-flumerfelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/private-prisons-matt-flumerfelt.html","title":{"rendered":"Private prisons —Matt Flumerfelt"},"content":{"rendered":"Received yesterday. -jsq\n
\nDear Andrea, We spoke not long ago by phone. I just want to let you know\n\n<\/a>\nthat plans to bring in a private prison here are not going to sit well with\nmany of us. In fact, it will most likely bring about a repeat of the recent\nBiomass issue. I don’t mean we are opposed to it. I mean we are vehemently\nopposed to it. It seems that Allen Ricketts and the other Board members\ndon’t understand that Valdosta’s citizens don’t want to be informed of, for\nexample, what finished products and raw materials will be stored in the\ndistribution center slated to locate in Valdosta AFTER the contract has been\nsigned. We have a right to know beforehand what kind of facility it is and\nwhat will be stored there. Informing us after the fact is not transparency.\nThis is an issue that will continue to be revisited as long as the VLCIA\ncontinues to act unilaterally without considering the wishes of those who\nlive here. We don’t want to be presented with a fait accompli. Also, the\nVLCIA is really not doing due diligence when it continues to court\nbusinesses that raise concerns over the ethical standards of the Board\nitself. Thanks. Matt Flumerfelt\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Received yesterday. -jsq Dear Andrea, We spoke not long ago by phone. I just want to let you know that plans to bring in a private prison here are not going to sit well with many of us. In fact, it will most likely bring about a repeat of the recent Biomass issue. I don’t […]","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":[97,120,1113,40,14,70,2,19,72,21,22,3,178],"tags":[8738,424,8705,8728,729,8701,8730,2695,3607,7,3609,75,3608,1297,1188,383,8700,6,8749],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-biomass","category-cca","category-community","category-economy","category-ethics","category-government","category-history","category-incarceration","category-planning","category-politics","category-transparency","category-vlcia","tag-biomass","tag-business","tag-education","tag-ethics","tag-fiscal-responsibility","tag-georgia","tag-incarceration","tag-justice","tag-knowledge-based-workers","tag-lowndes-county","tag-matt-flumerfelt","tag-prison","tag-prison-colony","tag-private-prison","tag-privatization","tag-taxes","tag-transparency","tag-valdosta","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-m3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","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=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}