{"id":1789,"date":"2011-07-08T08:53:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/who-wants-to-live-in-a-prison-colony.html"},"modified":"2011-07-08T08:53:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:53:11","slug":"who-wants-to-live-in-a-prison-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/who-wants-to-live-in-a-prison-colony.html","title":{"rendered":"Who wants to live in a prison colony?"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5914904127\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5235\/5914904127_4c54d06abf_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nJudy Green, a prison policy analyst says:\n<blockquote>\n&ldquo;The very first\ncontract\nfor the first private prison in America\nwent to CCA, from INS.&rdquo;\n<\/blockquote>\nHear her in this video\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0mFgKvhEBIQ&#038;feature=youtu.be\">\nPrivate Prisons-Commerce in Souls<\/a> by Grassroots Leadership\nthat explains the private prison trade of public safety for private profit:\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0mFgKvhEBIQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>\nA local leader once called private prisons &#8220;good clean industry&#8221;.\nDoes locking up people for private profit sound like &#8220;good clean industry&#8221; 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