{"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":"<p>Brad Lofton mentioned<br \/>\n(<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/competition-for-ccas-private-prison-roy-copeland.html\">at the 15 March 2011 VLCIA board meeting<\/a>)<br \/>\nthat the competition for VLCIA&#8217;s Project Excel,<br \/>\nthe CCA private prison, is Decatur County.<br \/>\nBainbridge and Decatur County seem to think they&#8217;ve been selected.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Post-Searchlight editorialized on 16 July 2010 that the prison would be<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepostsearchlight.com\/2010\/07\/16\/good-fit\/\"><br \/>\nA good fit.<\/a><br \/>\nThe next day,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bainbridgega.com\/news\/publish\/071610prison.shtml\"><br \/>\nBainbridgeGa.com posted on 17 July 2010:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bainbridgedecaturga.com\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.bainbridgedecaturga.com\/Images\/scan0007C.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nCorrections Corporation of America has finally announced their intention<br \/>\nto build a prison in Decatur County.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe not so secret secret was announced when the Bainbridge-Decatur County<br \/>\nDevelopment Authority agreed to a memorandum of understanding with CCA<br \/>\non Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe plans are to build what is thought to be in the range of a $100<br \/>\nmillion facility on 110 acres located in the Decatur County Industrial<br \/>\nPark on Highway 27 north.  The site is in the back of the Industrial Park,<br \/>\nwell back from the entrance on Highway 27 north.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is hoped the facility will provide 400-500 jobs for our area in the<br \/>\nnext couple of years.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So how come VLCIA thinks it&#8217;s getting a private prison from CCA?<\/p>\n<p>\nThe story continues in later posts.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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;]<\/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":[193,1747,8817,2858,300,969,1246,793,182],"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"],"_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}]}}