{"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":"<p>John Howard wrote in Capitol Weekly 28 January 2010,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?xid=yl82yoctf9d1au\"><br \/>\nPrivate prison company finds gold in California<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacp.org\/2010-Articles-Main\/012710-PrivatePrisonCoFindsGoldInCA.htm\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.lacp.org\/Graphics\/prison-cell-cuffs.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nIn three years, a private-prison construction and management company, the<br \/>\nCorrections Corporation of America, has seen the value of its contracts<br \/>\nwith the state soar from nearly $23 million in 2006 to about $700 million<br \/>\nthree months ago \u2013 all without competitive bidding. Even in a state<br \/>\naccustomed to high-dollar contracts, the 31-fold increase over three<br \/>\nyears is dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring the same period, the company\u2019s campaign donations rose<br \/>\nexponentially, from $36,750 in 2006, of which $25,000 went to the state<br \/>\nRepublican Party, to $233,500 in 2007-08 and nearly $139,000 in 2009.<br \/>\nThe donations have gone to Democrats, Republicans and ballot measures. The<br \/>\ncompany\u2019s largest single contribution, $100,000, went to an unsuccessful<br \/>\nbudget-reform package pushed last year by Gov. Schwarzenegger.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CCA contributed to cutting funding for other services while<br \/>\ngetting more contracts for itself.<br \/>\nIs that what we want in Georgia?<br \/>\nCut education funding while paying private prison companies?<br \/>\nIs that what we want in Lowndes County?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCosts vary, but CCA receives about $63 per day per inmate, or about<br \/>\n$23,000 annually.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would pay for a lot of rehabilitation and education.<br \/>\nHow about we do that instead?<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"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"],"_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}]}}