Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Another reason for CCW or Open Carry in Ohio!

News update for Ohio CCW and Open Carry: one more reason to have a firearm!!!

Ohio sells state prison to private contractor for $73 million.


Ohio said on Thursday it had gone through with a controversial plan to privatize a portion of the state’s prison system, the latest step in Republican Governor John Kasich’s campaign to shrink government and close the state’s budget shortfall.

Officials said the state had sold the Lake Erie Correctional Institution, an 11-year-old prison housing about 1,500 nonviolent prisoners, to the Corrections Corporation of America for $72.7 million. The state will now pay the Nashville-based company to run the facility.

The privatization of parts of Ohio’s prison system was one of the deficit-closing provisions contained in the budget Kasich signed into law earlier in June.

In all, Ohio hoped to sell five prisons, and raise as much as $200 million, in the privatization process. But the bids on the other four facilities fell short of the state’s hopes and they will remain in government hands for now.

Source: Kim Palmer for Reuters.

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