{"id":2098,"date":"2011-05-02T11:16:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/cca-profits-from-california-private-prisons.html"},"modified":"2011-05-02T11:16:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:16:45","slug":"cca-profits-from-california-private-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/cca-profits-from-california-private-prisons.html","title":{"rendered":"CCA profits from California private prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"John Howard wrote in Capitol Weekly 28 January 2010,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=yl82yoctf9d1au\">\nPrivate prison company finds gold in California<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacp.org\/2010-Articles-Main\/012710-PrivatePrisonCoFindsGoldInCA.htm\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.lacp.org\/Graphics\/prison-cell-cuffs.jpg\"><\/a>\nIn three years, a private-prison construction and management company, the\nCorrections Corporation of America, has seen the value of its contracts\nwith the state soar from nearly $23 million in 2006 to about $700 million\nthree months ago \u2013 all without competitive bidding. Even in a state\naccustomed to high-dollar contracts, the 31-fold increase over three\nyears is dramatic.\n<p>\nDuring the same period, the company\u2019s campaign donations rose\nexponentially, from $36,750 in 2006, of which $25,000 went to the state\nRepublican Party, to $233,500 in 2007-08 and nearly $139,000 in 2009.\nThe donations have gone to Democrats, Republicans and ballot measures. The\ncompany\u2019s largest single contribution, $100,000, went to an unsuccessful\nbudget-reform package pushed last year by Gov. Schwarzenegger.\n<\/blockquote>\nCCA contributed to cutting funding for other services while\ngetting more contracts for itself.\nIs that what we want in Georgia?\nCut education funding while paying private prison companies?\nIs that what we want in Lowndes County?\n<blockquote>\nCosts vary, but CCA receives about $63 per day per inmate, or about\n$23,000 annually.\n<\/blockquote>\nThat would pay for a lot of rehabilitation and education.\nHow about we do that instead?\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Howard wrote in Capitol Weekly 28 January 2010, Private prison company finds gold in California: In three years, a private-prison construction and management company, the Corrections Corporation of America, has seen the value of its contracts with the state soar from nearly $23 million in 2006 to about $700 million three months ago \u2013 [&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":[1113,14,15,72,3,178],"tags":[339,8817,8705,8730,218,4466,2712],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cca","category-economy","category-education","category-incarceration","category-transparency","category-vlcia","tag-california","tag-cca","tag-education","tag-incarceration","tag-profit","tag-reform","tag-rehabilitation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-xQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","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=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}