{"id":1374,"date":"2011-10-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/no-private-prison-john-s-quarterman.html"},"modified":"2011-10-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T13:00:00","slug":"no-private-prison-john-s-quarterman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/no-private-prison-john-s-quarterman.html","title":{"rendered":"No Private Prison &mdash;John S. Quarterman"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6262908813\/in\/photostream\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6120\/6262908813_e21a1b8f99_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nAt the MLK Monument last Friday, I brought up private prisons.\nMost of the 150 people marching to <a href=\"\/blog\/category\/occupy-valdosta\">\nOccupy Valdosta<\/a>\ndid not know that\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/10\/industrial-authority-board-meets-tuesday-530-pm.html\">\nthe Industrial Authority is helping\nCorrections Corporation of America (CCA) build a private prison\nin Lowndes County.<\/a>\nEven though it would not decrease unemployment, it would compromise\npublic safety, and it would probably compete with local labor.\n<p>\nWe don&#8217;t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.\nSpend those tax dollars on rehabilitation and education instead.\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pQ87R2bLDjI\">\nthe video:<\/a>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pQ87R2bLDjI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\nNo Private Prison &mdash;John S. Quarterman\n<br>\nWe are the 99%,\n<br>\nMarching to Occupy Valdosta, Occupy Valdosta,\n<br>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 14 October 2011.\n<br>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<\/small>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the MLK Monument last Friday, I brought up private prisons. Most of the 150 people marching to Occupy Valdosta did not know that the Industrial Authority is helping Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) build a private prison in Lowndes County. Even though it would not decrease unemployment, it would compromise public safety, and it [&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":[97,1113,40,14,15,72,3400,3453,178],"tags":[8817,8730,548,8845,8871,3621,3620,8749],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-community","category-economy","category-education","category-incarceration","category-occupy-valdosta","category-occupy-valdosta-14-october-2011","category-vlcia","tag-cca","tag-incarceration","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-mlk","tag-occupy-valdosta","tag-public-safety","tag-unemployment","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","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=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}