{"id":2278,"date":"2011-03-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/whats-the-value-of-inmates.html"},"modified":"2011-03-25T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:00:00","slug":"whats-the-value-of-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/whats-the-value-of-inmates.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the value of inmates?"},"content":{"rendered":"Cheap labor.  And not just unskilled labor.\nBrennan Leathers wrote\nin The Post-Searchlight on 18 February 2011,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepostsearchlight.com\/2011\/02\/18\/inmate-housing-a-hot-topic\/\">\nInmate housing a hot topic<\/a>\nabout how overcrowded nearby prisons are and\nabout haggling over what the local jail wants to charge to house prisoners,\nand ended with this:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepostsearchlight.com\/2011\/02\/18\/inmate-housing-a-hot-topic\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.thepostsearchlight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/brennanleathers.jpg\"><\/a>\n&#8220;Working our inmates the way we do has greatly benefited the county,&#8221;\n[Warden Elijah] McCoy [of the Decatur County Jail] said. &#8220;We can\nconstruct buildings from the ground up and wire them. We perform all\nof the county\u2019s maintenance and operate some of the equipment at the\ncounty\u2019s landfill.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\nOne of the comments from Decatur County\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bainbridgega.com\/talk\/?p=283\">\nway back in July 2010 was:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nNot only prison jobs, but it would also be a boost for many small\nbusinesses in the area. The construction part would also be a good shot\nin the arm.\n<\/blockquote>\nLocal construction people who think it will be a good deal to\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepostsearchlight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/userphoto\/carolheard.jpg\">\nbuild a private prison<\/a> maybe should think they may be putting\nthemselves out of a lot of jobs after it&#8217;s built.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheap labor. And not just unskilled labor. Brennan Leathers wrote in The Post-Searchlight on 18 February 2011, Inmate housing a hot topic about how overcrowded nearby prisons are and about haggling over what the local jail wants to charge to house prisoners, and ended with this: &#8220;Working our inmates the way we do has greatly [&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":[1113,14,72,178],"tags":[193,1115],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cca","category-economy","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-allan-ricketts","tag-bainbridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-AK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","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=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}