Ohio Gov. Kasich considers selling 5 prisons, newspaper says

[upstatecajun]

Here we go!!!!!!

"The Dayton Daily News reports it has obtained Ohio department proposals also indicating the state could cut funding for child care, food banks and drug courts, and shut down regional taxpayer service centers"

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/03/09/kasich-might-sell-five-prisons-dayton-newspaper-reports.html?sid=101














http://www.liberalohioan.com/index.html

[rfranklin]

1. Republicans are insane...

and greedy.

[Renew Deal]

2. Do the prisoners come with the prisons?

:shrug:

[WinkyDink]

3. Serfs are part of the manor holdings, so yes.

[upstatecajun]

5. Maybe he

will let them all go and fill the prisons up with Liberals.....Just saying?:spank:

[mod mom]

4. I've been saying this. He'll sell them cheaply to cronies-just watch!

[Botany]

6. Kasich's pick for the head of the Ohio Department of Corrections ......

.... just happens to be an executive for the Corrections Corporation of America do you
want to take a guess what company will get the bid to run the newly privatized prisons?

LET THE LOOTING START

Kasich picks new Ohio prisons chief

http://www.vindy.com/news/2011/jan/04/kasich-picks-new-ohio-prison-chief/

COLUMBUS (AP) — Gov.-elect John Kasich has named an executive at a private prison management company and former warden as the state’s next
corrections director.

At an event today in Chillicothe, Kasich announced Gary Mohr as his pick to head the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. A 36-year
veteran of the corrections industry, Mohr served previously as assistant state prisons director and superintendent of youth prisons. He was warden
of Chillicothe Correctional Institution, Ross Correctional Institution, and the Corrections Reception Center.

Mohr is a managing director at the Corrections Corporation of America, which designs, builds, manages and operates federal, state and local prisons
across the country. He succeeds prisons director Ernie Moore.

[mod mom]

7. I also noticed "Ohio prisons spokesman Carlo LoParo"-Blackwell's side kick.

Someone will grossly profit, taxpayers will be fleeced and prisoners will suffer. Assholes.

[Botany]

13. This is 100% about the looting of Ohio

John Kasich is a smart Scott Walker. This has nothing to do w/ balancing the state budget because
private for profit have a higher recidivism rate (inmates returning to prison after being released) then
publicly run ones. State parks, natural resources, and the Ohio Turnpike are all in line for Kasich's
Wall Street buddies to come on in and scoop up for pennies on the dollar.

[mod mom]

16. Get rid of the correction workers-watch the police are next.

Corrections workers will be offered slightly above minimum wage w few benefits under the next owner. My guess Xe is chomping at the bit in hopes we get rid of those pesky police who no longer support these assholes.

:mad:

[stockholmer]

10. touché (see my post below, you posted yours whilst I was compiling mine) thanks for the confirmation

[mod mom]

9. Did you see this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x593825

Maybe these assholes will start to peel away from King John. Is Bacon your senator? He's mine (because of gerrymandering of course)

[stockholmer]

8. I'd be interested to know if wicked firms likes Correction Corporation of America gave campaign $'s

CCA and Wackenhut are pure evil

http://www.correctionscorp.com/

A monster fed by ignorance, corruption and paranoia

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/a-monster-fed-by-ignorance-corruption-and-paranoia-1475123.html


in the UK and globally too too (big 2 firms are G4S, Serco)

G4S
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/06/prison-officers-sue-private-jail-takeover

http://www.g4s.com/

Serco - The most dangerous corporation you’ve never heard of
http://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/serco-the-most-dangerous-corporation-youve-never-heard-of/ (short 2 minute video too)

Serco are responsible for controlling & maintaining many dodgy things for the governments of -
Australia,
America,
the U.K,
Canada,
Ireland & the united Arab emirates.

their staff is 85% comprised of Ex-Public Servants (government)
They own the contract to set Greenwich mean time,
and practically everything else you wouldn't want dodgy people to have power over.
They are present in the military industrial and prison industrial complexes of most of the countries listed above, and that is never a good combo either.

[mod mom]

11. This deserves it's own thread, as I'm sure it is a GOP strategy to privatize

it all! Good but sickening info! :hi:

[stockholmer]

15. these corporations are global in reach, and all to many times get support from both left and right

just like the banksters x(

capitalism's innate drive is to never-ever ending expansion, and it systematically seeks to commoditize all possible routes to potential profit centers

not only will they try to privatize the receptacles of judicial punishment (ie prison system), but they also force through new draconian laws to create built-in feeder streams to keep their private gulags full

[mod mom]

17. by left you mean DINOs, right?

[stockholmer]

21. in the US, yes, but globally many so-called left-leaning parties sell out too

if they get certain deals that satisfy them at utilitarian levels.

DINO, I assume, equals Democrat In Name Only, btw

To my outsider's (I did live in the US for several years) eyes, given the continuity of agenda that takes place in US policy whether it is Republicans or Democrats in power (NAFTA, wars of empire, tax breaks for the usurper class of uber-rich, lack of prosecution of corrupt banking cartels, failure to enact universal heath care, failed war on drugs, expansion of military budget, support of police state's ever increasing grip, etc) it would appear that the majority of Democrats are, at the core decision/voting level, DINO's.

[upstatecajun]

14. That is

just WOW.....coming to a Country near you soon??????????:nuke:

[LeftinOH]

12. To whom? Does that mean his alternative is profit-based prisons?

[highplainsdem]

18. More American Legislative Exchange Council mischief. Kasich's a longtime member.

ALEC basically has a cozy setup that lets corporations make tax-free donations (it's supposedly a charity) and write "model legislation" for its thousands of members who are conservative legislators.

Same thing happened in Arizona:

http://tucsoncitizen.com/cell-out-arizona/category/american-legislative-exchange-council-alec/

Kasich's pick to head the Ohio Department of Corrections is from the Corrections Corporation of America, which is mentioned in that article about what happened in Arizona.

This is the general topic I posted on what ALEC is up to:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x591230

The quote from Wikipedia in the OP there mentions Kasich's involvement with ALEC since its formative years.

I tried to get to the model legislation for prisons on the ALEC website, but although I can get as far as this page

http://www.alec.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=PublicSafetyandElectionsModelLegislation

the actual model legislation is available only to ALEC members. I suppose access is restricted to keep more people from being aware just how many bills in this rightwing legislative blitz are in fact from ALEC, part of their agenda and written by the corporations that will profit.

[mod mom]

19. and as you say...the Koch Bros are involved! good info, thanks!

[highplainsdem]

20. This is way beyond the Koch brothers. They're a part of this, but only a part.

Please see my topics about what's going on, thanks to ALEC (and this barely scratches the surface, I'm afraid):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x591230

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x593161

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x590917

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x594171

[mod mom]

22. Thanks,. Fertile ground for Anonymous!

[stockholmer]

25. here is one more model ALEC legislation

Prison Industries Act - by American Legislative Exchange Council (unsigned)
http://www.heartland.org/custom/semod_policybot/pdf/6275.pdf

[stockholmer]

24. I think this is the model legislation on prisons for ALEC you seek

Community Corrections Performance Measurement Act
http://www.alec.org/AM/PDF/publicsafety&elections/ALEC_Community_Corrections_Performance_Measurement_Act.pdf

Community Corrections Performance Incentive Act
http://www.alec.org/AM/PDF/publicsafety&elections/ALEC_Community_Corrections_Performance_Incentive_Act.pdf

Recidivism Reduction Act
http://www.alec.org/AM/PDF/publicsafety&elections/ALEC_Recidivism_Reduction_Act.pdf

Swift and Certain Sanctions Act
http://www.alec.org/AM/PDF/publicsafety&elections/ALEC_Swift_and_Certain_Sanctions_Act.pdf

June 2010 ALEC Report focusing on Public Saftey
http://www.alec.org/AM/PDF/InsideALEC/InsideALEC_June10_Final.pdf

let me know if this is what you wanted

cheers

[OHdem10]

23. All the shady stories out of Arizona and selling prison should

make him pause and think.