More Private Prisons For Ohio?

[irishbobcat]

Only through your rose-colored glasses, Rick....

[Rick Rowlands]

Don't private prisons create jobs?  Jobs that can be awarded to the so called "poor"?   Don't prisons house thousands of the so called "poor criminals"?  Seems to me that the "poor" benefit greatly from prisons.

[irishbobcat]

The rich don't go to jail....they go to Oprah and sell books.....

[Dan Moadus]

How stupid it was of me; thanks for the enlightenment Dennis. By the way, what about the other part of the statement, you know the part that said the Republican's drive for "law and order" puts the poor and working poor in its gunsights?  How exactly does wanting to make prisons more cost effective, target the poor?

[irishbobcat]

Dan, are you so stupid not to know the latest Supreme Court ruling that

regards corporations as people?

Man, what rock have you been living under for a year.....

Hey scarecrow, find a brain.....

[Dan Moadus]

Dennis' pasted article says in part, "Gary Mohr to head Ohio's prison system portends a return to the old Republican law and order mantra and will most certainly be bad news for those first in it's gunsights, the poor and the working poor."  Strange choice of wording considering it is mostly the poor who become victims of criminals. Maybe Dennis could elaborate more on what this means. And, while he's at it, maybe he could explain what "personhood" means in the last sentence. Don't count on it though.

[irishbobcat]

The corporate buddies of John Kasich are wasting no time in riding his coatails to the governor's mansion. Kasich's appointment of private prison honcho Gary Mohr to head Ohio's prison system portends a return to the old Republican law and order mantra and will most certainly be bad news for those first in it's gunsights, the poor and the working poor.

Mohr was a former Ohio prison warden when he left in 2005 to become a private prison consultant.(some coincidence!)He then became managing director of the Corrections Corporation of America, one of his consulting firm's clients. (zounds, another unbelievable coincidence!)

He has expressed support for more private prisons in Ohio, obviously something Kasich agrees with.

Not that Strickland wouldn't have done it if he had thought it would have helped his re-elction bid. ( or his pocketbook)He probably regrets that mistake.

The spoonfeeding of corporate control to Ohio's voters in 2008 in the form of the farm bill will certainly help to soften the voting public to surrendering more public assets and control for the sake of corporate greed unless we stop them.

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