{"id":1542,"date":"2011-09-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/cca-really-doesnt-like-community-opposition-so-apparently-it-works.html"},"modified":"2011-09-06T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T12:00:00","slug":"cca-really-doesnt-like-community-opposition-so-apparently-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/cca-really-doesnt-like-community-opposition-so-apparently-it-works.html","title":{"rendered":"CCA really doesn’t like community opposition, so apparently it works"},"content":{"rendered":"Private prison company CCA, which in conjunction with ALEC promotes laws in dozens of states and nationally that lock up more people for CCA’s private profit at taxpayer expense, really doesn’t like\ncommunity opposition to siting private prisons in their communities.\nHm, why would CCA hate community opposition so much, unless it works?\n

\nNot quite rolling his eyes when she mentions visiting communities,\nCCA’s video pair disparage\n\ncommunity opposition to private prisons<\/a>\non their own web page,\n\nWhen Corrections Meets Communities<\/a>:\n

\n\n<\/a>\nQuestion:<\/strong>\nThere are Web sites and blogs that are adamantly opposed to your company\nand industry, and they provide negative information about you. Why?\n<\/blockquote>\nHm, you mean like some of the material on this blog?\n
\nAnswer:<\/strong>\nCCA and all corrections companies recognize the ongoing efforts\nof local, loosely formed grassroots groups and national, well-funded\nassociations that jointly oppose the establishment of partnership\nprisons, many for self-serving reasons. Such groups go to great lengths\nto attack, criticize and misrepresent the entire industry. They make false\nallegations and often rely on hearsay and unreliable sources. Regrettably,\nthese biased groups often resort to misinformation and inflammatory\nrhetoric to turn isolated incidents into broad generalizations about\nthe corrections industry as a whole.\n<\/blockquote>\nWell-funded? Har! OK, not this blog.\nThat plus we provide evidence, like\n\n\n\n<\/a>\n\nCCA’s own 2010 Form 10K to the SEC<\/a>\nand\n\nmedical reports at McRae<\/a>\nand \nextensive research by NAACP and personal experience by LEAP,<\/a>\nincluding\n\nNAACP’s report on the War on Drugs<\/a>\nthat got even Grover Norquist on the same stage saying we can’t afford\nto lock up so many people.\n

\nSpeaking of well-funded, I prefer\n\nBloomberg’s take:<\/a>\n

\nThe big winner in the crackdown on the illegal immigration\n\n<\/a>\nhas been\nthe private prison industry. As Bloomberg Business Week reports in its\nlatest issue, companies such as Corrections Corporation of America are\nmaking millions. In fact, CCA makes more money from detaining immigrants\nthan it does from any single U.S. state.\n
\n…\n
\nThat has led to CCA’s stock rising ten-fold in the last decade.\n<\/blockquote>\nIt’s true, Bloomberg is well-funded. Will CCA claim Bloomberg misrepresented\nCCA’s well-recorded stock price history, or what CCA’s own executives\ntold CCA about the anti-illegal immigrant source of their profits?\n

\nBack to the CCA FAQ:\n

\nOpposition efforts do a disservice to the national discussion of the\nmerits of public-private partnership in corrections. A healthy dialogue on\ncorrectional partnerships should focus on the facts \u2013 not half truths,\nInternet chatter and blatant lies.\n<\/blockquote>\nThose big bucks CCA gets from the government to detain immigrants?\n\n<\/a>\nThose are our tax dollars!\nCCA and ALEC\n\npromote locking up more people nationally and in dozens of states<\/a>.\nTaxpayers and the victims of those laws\nhave every right to oppose the privatization of justice for the profit of a few corporate executives and shareholders.\nEvery right to oppose private prisons and, to oppose the war on drugs that funds them,\nlike\n\nJimmy Carter is doing.<\/a>\nAnd if you want to call Jimmy Carter a liar, CCA, them’s fightin’ words.\n

\nMore from the CCA FAQ:\n

\nWhen these groups criticize CCA, they are, by extension, criticizing\ngovernments that have carefully chosen to manage a portion of their\ncorrections system in this manner.\n<\/blockquote>\nWell, yeah!\nThank you, CCA, for drawing one correct conclusion.\n\nCCA’s own website says under partnering:<\/a>\n
\n“CCA has been a great partner with us for nearly a decade now.\n\n<\/a>\nCoffee\nCorrectional Facility and Wheeler Correctional Facility certainly meet\nthe standards of the Georgia Department of Corrections. I particularly\nappreciate CCA maintaining exemplary accreditation status with both\nthe American Correctional Association and the National Commission on\nCorrectional Healthcare. I look forward to a continued long relationship\nwith them.\u201d\n
\n—Commissioner James E. Donald, Georgia Department of Corrections\n<\/blockquote>\nYes, I criticise that!\nGeorgia has no business outsourcing public justice for private profit.\n

\nThe Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority should reject\nCCA’s attempt to site a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.\nThe state of Georgia or the federal government (whichever might\nend up behind that private prison) should spend those tax dollars\non rehabilitation and education instead.\n

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