{"id":2300,"date":"2011-03-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/private-prison-a-major-impact-on-the-community-brad-lofton.html"},"modified":"2011-03-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T16:00:00","slug":"private-prison-a-major-impact-on-the-community-brad-lofton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/private-prison-a-major-impact-on-the-community-brad-lofton.html","title":{"rendered":"Private prison &#8220;a major impact on the community&#8221; &#8211;Brad Lofton"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UjrTXJiSOq4\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/UjrTXJiSOq4\/default.jpg\"><\/a>\nPreviously we asked if <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/cca-private-prison-in-lowndes-county.html\">\npublic objections caused VLCIA to change its tune about\nletting CCA build a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.<\/a>\nOK, that was a rhetorical question: of course not!\n<p>\nSpeaking at the Lake Park Chamber of Commerce annual dinner,\n28 January 2011,\nBrad Lofton\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UjrTXJiSOq4\">\npraised the private prison project:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\n&#8220;&#8230;we hope will be under construction in the next 18 months.\nIt will be about $150 million dollar project;\nanywhere from 4 to 600 new jobs.\nA lot of communities in Georgia are built around state prisons.\nA hundred of those 400 will be post-secondary, nutritionalists,\nphysicians, nurses, vocational rehab, so we&#8217;re proud of that project.\nYou&#8217;ll start to hear a little bit more about that.\nThere will be about 300 construction jobs over about a 24 month period,\nwhich will have a major impact on the community.&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UjrTXJiSOq4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<center>\n<small>\nBrad Lofton, Executive Director,\n<br>\nValdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA),\n<br>\nspeaking at the\nLake Park Chamber of Commerce annual dinner,\n<br>\nLake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 January 2011.\n<br>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<\/small>\n<\/center>\n<p>\nThat was part of Lofton&#8217;s famous\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/authority-should-listen-to-other-sources-john-s-quarterman.html\">\n&#8220;jobs, jobs, jobs&#8221; speech.<\/a>\nLofton is\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/goodbye-brad-lofton-vlcia-15-mar-2011.html\">\ngone now<\/a>, but apparently VLCIA still plans the prison.\n<p>\nThe story continues in later posts.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Previously we asked if public objections caused VLCIA to change its tune about letting CCA build a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia. 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