{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5914904127\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5235\/5914904127_4c54d06abf_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nJudy Green, a prison policy analyst says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&ldquo;The very first<br \/>\ncontract<br \/>\nfor the first private prison in America<br \/>\nwent to CCA, from INS.&rdquo;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hear her in this video<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0mFgKvhEBIQ&#038;feature=youtu.be\"><br \/>\nPrivate Prisons-Commerce in Souls<\/a> by Grassroots Leadership<br \/>\nthat explains the private prison trade of public safety for private profit:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0mFgKvhEBIQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nA local leader once called private prisons &#8220;good clean industry&#8221;.<br \/>\nDoes locking up people for private profit sound like &#8220;good clean industry&#8221; to you?<br \/>\nRemember, not only is the U.S. the worst in the world for locking people up<br \/>\n(more prisoners per capita and total than any other country in the world),<br \/>\nbut Georgia is the worst in the country, with<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/07\/1-in-13-georgia-adults-in-the-prison-system-pew-center-on-the-states.html\"><br \/>\n1 in 13 adults in the prison system.<\/a><br \/>\nAnd private prisons<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/06\/private-prisons-dont-save-much-money-nytimes.html\"><br \/>\ndon&#8217;t save money<\/a> and<br \/>\nthey<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/private-prisons-do-not-increase-local-employment.html\"><br \/>\ndon&#8217;t improve local employment.<\/a><br \/>\nAs someone says in the video, who wants to live in a prison colony?<\/p>\n<p>\nWe don&#8217;t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.<br \/>\nSpend that tax money on rehabilitation and education.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n<p>\nPS: Owed to Jeana Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judy Green, a prison policy analyst says: &ldquo;The very first contract for the first private prison in America went to CCA, from INS.&rdquo; Hear her in this video Private Prisons-Commerce in Souls by Grassroots Leadership that explains the private prison trade of public safety for private profit: A local leader once called private prisons &#8220;good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,1113,40,14,15,2,1381,72,21,178],"tags":[8817,1139,8701,1264,8830,8730,4144,7,1297,218,1466,1280,2712,8731,383,6,8749],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-community","category-economy","category-education","category-government","category-immigration","category-incarceration","category-planning","category-vlcia","tag-cca","tag-employment","tag-georgia","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-incarceration","tag-ins","tag-lowndes-county","tag-private-prison","tag-profit","tag-profiteering","tag-public","tag-rehabilitation","tag-safety","tag-taxes","tag-valdosta","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","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=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}