Update II: The details have been announced. Get them here. Ohio will only sell one of the five prisons.
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Update: Ohio today will announce which companies will get to pony up the cash to buy and run five of Ohio prisons. As the original item below stated, ProgressOhio filed suit to temporarily block the sale, claiming that Kasich’s inclusion of the prison sale plan in the state’s budget was unconstitutional.
Yesterday, according to the Dispatch, Judge Pat Sheeran of Franklin County Common Pleas Court decided against ProgressOhio’s request for a temporary restraining order. However, he did set a September 13 date to deteremine whether voters where illegally denied the chance to decide for themselves whether Ohio should hang the “For Sale” sign on its prisons. Via the Dispatch: “Sheeran said that, if he decides in favor of ProgressOhio after the Sept. 13 hearing, the resolution would sever the prison-sale section of the budget bill ‘in order to permit the 90-day referendum period to take effect so that, if the people desire, a referendum may be pursued to place the issue on the ballot.'” — Grzegorek
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You may recall that one of Governor John Kasich’s early pledges to turn Ohio around involved selling off five state prisons. Apart from evidence that past prison sales have gone poorly for everyone involved, the plan was hugely popular.
This article appears in Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2011.
where do i sign, kaschs idea of less government is to sell it to his cronies. they who buy into privatizing prison’s have no respect for the men and women who have to guard the prisoners, they get pay cut’s plus they have to work with unsafe staffing. it’s time to recall kasich before he gives the state away.
Yes, I will join the vote to recall Kasich!