{"id":180046,"date":"2017-07-29T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/29\/private-prisons\/"},"modified":"2017-07-29T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T23:28:00","slug":"private-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/29\/private-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Estancia, New Mexico, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/news\/local_news\/company-plans-to-close-private-estancia-prison-lay-off\/article_1ecd4d0e-caa1-5a05-bab2-1a7270729271.html\">a private prison is threatening to close unless the authorities throw some more people in prison<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The company that has operated a private prison in Estancia for nearly three decades has announced it will close the Torrance County Detention Facility and lay off more than 200 employees unless it can find 300 state or federal inmates to fill empty beds within the next 60 days, according to a statement issued Tuesday by county officials.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThis is a big issue for us,\u201d Torrance County Manager Belinda Garland said in a phone interview Tuesday. \u201cIt\u2019s going to affect Torrance County in a big way.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Jonathan Burns, a spokesman for CoreCivic \u2014 formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America \u2014 had this to say about the closure:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe city of Estancia and the surrounding community have been a great partner to CoreCivic for the last 27 years. CoreCivic is grateful for the support the community has shown through the years and we\u2019re honored to have been a part of that community. Unfortunately, a declining detainee population in general has forced us to make difficult decisions in order to maximize utilization of our resources.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Garland said the prison\u2019s imminent closure will affect the county in a number of ways, not the least of which is that the county, which does not have its own jail, will have to find another place to house the 40 to 75 inmates it sends there each month.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, holding a town for ransom in an attempt to get law enforcement to lock up more people.<\/p>\n<p>That is pretty f%$#ing cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Estancia, New Mexico, a private prison is threatening to close unless the authorities throw some more people in prison: The company that has operated a private prison in Estancia for nearly three decades has announced it will close the Torrance County Detention Facility and lay off more than 200 employees unless it can find &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[443,368,364,526,374,412],"class_list":["post-180046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corrections","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-politics","tag-privatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}