{"id":2290,"date":"2011-03-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/cca-private-prison-in-decatur-county.html"},"modified":"2011-03-22T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T12:00:00","slug":"cca-private-prison-in-decatur-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/cca-private-prison-in-decatur-county.html","title":{"rendered":"CCA private prison in Decatur County?"},"content":{"rendered":"Brad Lofton mentioned\n(<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/competition-for-ccas-private-prison-roy-copeland.html\">at the 15 March 2011 VLCIA board meeting<\/a>)\nthat the competition for VLCIA&#8217;s Project Excel,\nthe CCA private prison, is Decatur County.\nBainbridge and Decatur County seem to think they&#8217;ve been selected.\n<p>\nThe Post-Searchlight editorialized on 16 July 2010 that the prison would be\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepostsearchlight.com\/2010\/07\/16\/good-fit\/\">\nA good fit.<\/a>\nThe next day,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bainbridgega.com\/news\/publish\/071610prison.shtml\">\nBainbridgeGa.com posted on 17 July 2010:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bainbridgedecaturga.com\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.bainbridgedecaturga.com\/Images\/scan0007C.jpg\"><\/a>\nCorrections Corporation of America has finally announced their intention\nto build a prison in Decatur County.\n<p>\nThe not so secret secret was announced when the Bainbridge-Decatur County\nDevelopment Authority agreed to a memorandum of understanding with CCA\non Thursday.\n<p>\nThe plans are to build what is thought to be in the range of a $100\nmillion facility on 110 acres located in the Decatur County Industrial\nPark on Highway 27 north.  The site is in the back of the Industrial Park,\nwell back from the entrance on Highway 27 north.\n<p>\nIt is hoped the facility will provide 400-500 jobs for our area in the\nnext couple of years.\n<\/blockquote>\nSo how come VLCIA thinks it&#8217;s getting a private prison from CCA?\n<p>\nThe story continues in later posts.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brad Lofton mentioned (at the 15 March 2011 VLCIA board meeting) that the competition for VLCIA&#8217;s Project Excel, the CCA private prison, is Decatur County. Bainbridge and Decatur County seem to think they&#8217;ve been selected. The Post-Searchlight editorialized on 16 July 2010 that the prison would be A good fit. The next day, BainbridgeGa.com posted [&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":[193,1747,8817,2858,300,969,1246,793,182],"class_list":["post-2290","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-gary-minchew","tag-industry","tag-tom-call"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-AW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","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=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}