{"id":2176,"date":"2011-04-17T23:12:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T03:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/former-cca-employee-is-ohio-prison-chief-in-while-state-is-selling-off-prisons.html"},"modified":"2011-04-17T23:12:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T03:12:35","slug":"former-cca-employee-is-ohio-prison-chief-in-while-state-is-selling-off-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/former-cca-employee-is-ohio-prison-chief-in-while-state-is-selling-off-prisons.html","title":{"rendered":"Former CCA employee is Ohio prison chief in while state is selling off prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.drc.ohio.gov\/web\/director.htm\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.drc.ohio.gov\/images\/directormohr_tab.jpg\"><\/a>\nJoe Gullen writes in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 21 March 2011, that\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/open\/index.ssf\/2011\/03\/private_corrections_company_wi.html\">\nPrivate corrections company with ties to government officials will not get special treatment while Ohio sells five prisons, director says<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nA private corrections company with ties to both the governor&#8217;s office and\nthe corrections department will get no special treatment as Ohio moves\nto privatize a chunk of its prison system, the corrections department\ndirector said Monday.\n<p>\nGary Mohr, director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and\nCorrection, has pledged to remove himself from Gov. John Kasich&#8217;s recent\nproposal to sell five Ohio prisons to avoid even the appearance of a\nconflict of interest.\n<p>\nMohr is a former consultant and managing director for Corrections\nCorporation of America, a Nashville-based company that is eligible to\nbid on the state prison contracts once they are made available next month.\n<p>\nThe company, which bills itself the leading private-sector provider\nof corrections services to governments, also hired Kasich&#8217;s former\ncongressional chief of staff, Donald Thibaut, as a lobbyist in January.\n<\/blockquote>\nOh, my, how would any of that produce an appearance of conflict of interest?\n<blockquote>\nAs for hiring Kasich&#8217;s former congressional chief of staff as a lobbyist,\nOwen said CCA has long had a lobbyist in Ohio to educate elected officials\non the services the company provides. CCA owns and operates a Youngstown\nfacility that houses federal prisoners.\n<p>\n&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing hidden and no agenda,&#8221; Owen said.\n<\/blockquote>\nWell, in that case, CCA should have no objection to finding out, for example,\nwho they had lobbying the Georgia legislature lately.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Gullen writes in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, 21 March 2011, that Private corrections company with ties to government officials will not get special treatment while Ohio sells five prisons, director says A private corrections company with ties to both the governor&#8217;s office and the corrections department will get no special treatment as Ohio moves [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1113,72,178],"tags":[8817,4722,8701,8730,3067],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cca","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-cca","tag-gary-mohr","tag-georgia","tag-incarceration","tag-ohio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-z6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","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=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}