{"id":2285,"date":"2011-03-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/cca-for-lowndes-county-in-georgiatrend.html"},"modified":"2011-03-23T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:00:00","slug":"cca-for-lowndes-county-in-georgiatrend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/cca-for-lowndes-county-in-georgiatrend.html","title":{"rendered":"CCA for Lowndes County in GeorgiaTrend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corrections_Corporation_of_America\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"    src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/3\/38\/Corrections_Corporation_of_America_logo.png\/200px-Corrections_Corporation_of_America_logo.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nEd Lightsey writes in GeorgiaTrend for March 2011,<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/cca-private-prison-in-lowndes-county.html\"><br \/>\nValdosta\/Lowndes County: Taking Off<\/a><br \/>\nabout many good developments in Lowndes County.<br \/>\nBut among them is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAbout two years ago, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) began<br \/>\nlooking for sites on which to build a prison, and after an 18-month<br \/>\nsearch chose Lowndes County, a decision that promises 400 to 600 new<br \/>\njobs. \u201cIt\u2019s a $150-million investment,\u201d Lofton says. \u201cThat\u2019s<br \/>\nthe second largest investment in the history of the county. And of those<br \/>\npromised jobs, about 120 will require post secondary education; they are<br \/>\nnurses, physician assistants, dieticians and vocational rehab folks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nCCA is the fifth largest penal system in the country, behind Florida,<br \/>\nCalifor-nia, Texas and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, according to<br \/>\nLofton. \u201cThey have about 20,000 employees across the country,\u201d<br \/>\nhe says.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So why do we need them here?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Federal_Prisoner_Distribution.png\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"  width=\"200\" height=\"576\"  alt=\"208px-Federal_Prisoner_Distribution.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quarterman.com\/images\/208px-Federal_Prisoner_Distribution.png\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe U.S. has more prisoners both total and per capita<br \/>\nthan any other country: more than Russia, more than China.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/5-population-25-prison-population-us.html\"><br \/>\nWe have 5% of the world&#8217;s population and 25% of the world&#8217;s prisoners.<\/a><br \/>\nIs that anything to be proud of?<\/p>\n<p>\nNot only that,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/us-leads-the-world-and-south-leads-the-us-in-prisons.html\"><br \/>\nthe south leads the U.S. in prison population,<br \/>\nwith Georgia as number four nationwide.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe south also leads the nation in obesity,<br \/>\nbut is that any reason to want more of it?<br \/>\nOr maybe Project Excel really is Project XL.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Lightsey writes in GeorgiaTrend for March 2011, Valdosta\/Lowndes County: Taking Off about many good developments in Lowndes County. But among them is this: About two years ago, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) began looking for sites on which to build a prison, and after an 18-month search chose Lowndes County, a decision that promises [&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":[193,1747,8817,2858,300,969,793,189,186,4869,847,548,8702,12,1169,185,181,3027,183,182,180,8749],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cca","category-economy","category-incarceration","category-vlcia","tag-allan-ricketts","tag-brad-lofton","tag-cca","tag-corrections-corporation-of-america","tag-development","tag-economics","tag-industry","tag-j-stephen-gupton","tag-jerry-jennett","tag-jim-webb","tag-jobs","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-marketing","tag-mary-gooding","tag-norman-bennett","tag-project-excel","tag-roy-copeland","tag-tom-call","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","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=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}