{"id":2275,"date":"2011-03-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/private-prisons-do-not-increase-local-employment.html"},"modified":"2011-03-26T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T12:00:00","slug":"private-prisons-do-not-increase-local-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/private-prisons-do-not-increase-local-employment.html","title":{"rendered":"Private prisons do not increase local employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an empirical study, siting a private prison in a rural county<br \/>\ndoes not increase employment.<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/ppjr.org\/prison\/files\/tracy huling prisons economy study.pdf\">Big Prisons, Small Towns:<\/a><br \/>\nPrison Economics in Rural America<br \/>\nby Ryan S. King, Marc Mauer and Tracy Huling,<br \/>\nFebruary 2003.)<\/p>\n<p>\nTheir Key Findings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ppjr.org\/prison\/files\/tracy huling prisons economy study.pdf\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/thedefendersonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/marc-mauer.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nOverall, over the course of 25 years, we find no significant difference or<br \/>\ndiscernible pattern of economic trends between the seven rural counties in<br \/>\nNew York that hosted a prison and the seven rural counties that did not<br \/>\nhost a prison. While prisons clearly create new jobs, these benefits do<br \/>\nnot aid the host county to any substantial degree since local residents<br \/>\nare not necessarily in a position to be hired for these jobs. The most<br \/>\nsignificant findings are as follows:\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They go on to detail effects on unemployment during<br \/>\neconomic recovery, downturn, and boom, and in each period<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nunemployment<br \/>\nwas slightly <em>worse<\/em> in counties that hosted a prison.<br \/>\nThey looked at per capita income and concluded that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCounties that hosted new prisons received no economic advantage as<br \/>\nmeasured by per capita income.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/private-prison-a-major-impact-on-the-community-brad-lofton.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/UjrTXJiSOq4\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nRemember, the justification for a private prison in Lowndes County<br \/>\nis supposed to be<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/private-prison-a-major-impact-on-the-community-brad-lofton.html\"><br \/>\n&#8220;jobs, jobs, jobs&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nAccording to this study, it won&#8217;t even increase jobs.<br \/>\nAnd the study didn&#8217;t even look into<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/whats-the-value-of-inmates.html\"><br \/>\ndirt-cheap prison labor competing with local labor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an empirical study, siting a private prison in a rural county does not increase employment. (Big Prisons, Small Towns: Prison Economics in Rural America by Ryan S. King, Marc Mauer and Tracy Huling, February 2003.) Their Key Findings: Overall, over the course of 25 years, we find no significant difference or discernible pattern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1113,14,72,178],"tags":[193,1115,4862,1747,8817,2858,4860,8819,4859,4861],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cca","category-economy","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-allan-ricketts","tag-bainbridge","tag-bainbridge-decatur-county-development-authority","tag-brad-lofton","tag-cca","tag-corrections-corporation-of-america","tag-marc-mauer","tag-new-york","tag-ryan-s-king","tag-tracy-huling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","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=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}