REAL FACTS
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Politicians supporting this projecthave received financial donationsfrom CCA.
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Property Values in a similarneighborhood in AZ dropped 12%after their detention center wasbuilt.
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Coldwell Banker's prison disclosureand hold harmless agreement thatapplies to ALL properties West of I-75, south of Griffin Road and Northof Pines Boulevard.
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"The sharks are beginning tocircle," wrote SWR Town AttorneyPoliakoff. "We should remain fullyquiet" . How is that open andtransparent ?
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As a result of declining prisonadmissions and excess bed space,the Florida Department of Correc-tions will be closing 7 prisons byJuly 1, 2012, including the Women’sPrison next to the CCA parcel.
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This location is part of the Ever-glades. The negative impact on ourever dwindling water supply isunacceptable.
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SW Broward is brimming withresidential properties and schools.It is no place for a prison.
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ICE has two other respondents totheir RFP who are eager to havetheir locations selected for thisproject.
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Who would you believe first... Amulti-million dollar company makingmoney off our tax dollars or yourneighbors who have been research-ing this company since they an-nounced the detention center?"
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out. In Crowley, Colorado, they hadthree health "benefit" plans for em-ployees. Astronomical employee pre-mium contributions meant that fewcould afford the best plan. The secondplan had extremely high co-pays andvery limited benefits. The bottom planwas next to worthless. The secretiveCCA alleges that what it pays is pro-tected "proprietary information," as isthe nature of those held inside theirprisons. In fact, our recent legal dis-covery efforts have confirmed CCApays it's non-guard staff as little as$8.80/hour.We are told that we will get "New Jobswith good pay and benefits." That'strue to some extent. Certainly thewhite collar management will get goodpaying jobs. Their CEO, Danon Hin-inger, made $3.3MM in 2010. That's agreat job! We are sure the bene-fits are good too. We can't wait to seethose types of jobs come in to ourarea, especially for all the politicianswho have either joined the ranks of theunemployed or that soon will join theirranks.CCA will pay as little as it possibly can,as it does everywhere in the U.S. Inthe absence of effective monitoring, itcan be expected to staff the prisonwell below contracted levels. If it isable (and it has lost million dollar,multi-state class-action suits thatchallenged its practices) it will payless than legal wages. Its benefits aremarginal. They brag about their 401Kplans, although they have very lowparticipation among staff who areliving paycheck to paycheck. In 2000,during a visit to their CADC prison inFlorence, Arizona a poster in thebreak room lauded their retirement. Infact their stock was selling close to$40 at the time and dropped to 28cents per share by 2001."Retirements" were completely wiped
New Jobs Yes, But Not So Good Pay & Benefits“Hundreds of New Jobs” Locals Need Not Apply
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couldn't continue at the locked downprison. Asked if they were a unioncrew, we were told that they weren't,That they sometimes had to buy asingle employee "card" to present theappearance of legitimizing the job.They said no one paid dues regularly,nor did they get anything close toprevailing wages. Asked if they trav-eled all over the country doing roofsfor CCA, for instance at their Califor-nia City prison in California? They saidthat they did,
that local laborerswere not employed.
Prison con-struction is a specialty where con-struction jobs are filled by only aOn 7/21/04, the day after its secondmajor riot, the Crowley prison was stillsmoking. It was surrounded by aperimeter of state prison correctionalofficers to deal with any possibleescapes as many of the low paid CCAguards had run for their lives and ahuge number resigned in its immedi-ate aftermath. The town where it waslocated, Olney Springs, was derelict,with almost all its stores boarded up.A restaurant was open with a wellworn, bare board floor. Unable to workbecause of the riot were half a dozenroofers from Tennessee who had beenbusy finishing a new cellblock buthandful of local workers, usually thosein locally licensed specialties such aselectricians. We have found this to bethe case in one facility after another(check the Private Corrections Insti-tute's webpage for Hardin, Montana:www.privateci.org) In Pahrump, NV,CCA made the same promises to localsand only seemed to use local labor forsite prep, as the cost of bringing inearth moving equipment would havemade employing out-of-state, poorlytrained scabs more expensive. It does-n't appear that they used any signifi-cant union labor. (are the carpenterslistening ?)
WWW.NOPRISONSWR.ORG
swranchesdetentioncenter
More Money for Local Schools.The Real Impact of locating a facility like Krome in SWRHelping Local Businesses ?
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One ex CCA employee said :
The company brought staff from other facilitiesto be promoted. We were also forced to workvery long hours, in some cases three shifts in arow. We were never allowed to take any lunchbreaks, even between shifts. Our paycheckswere often several hours late, so when you gotoff of your shift, you would have to wait two orthree hours to get paid on payday. Vacation andovertime pay was frequently left out of ourchecks, and when it was brought to theattention of HR, there were plenty of excuseson why they didn't have to pay it.
convinced CCA would expresslocal purchasing preference.They recently closed theirdoors in the absence of anysuch windfall. In fact the in-dustry prefers prefabricatedconstruction from out of thestates where their prisonswere sited, only needing to bebolted together and just finish-ing work to be done on site. Infact, when they promote theirservices to states and thefeds, they repeatedly claimthat nationally centralized pur-chasing lowers their costs,contradicting the false claim ofbuying local.
CCA's "community" is Nash-ville, TN, the only one to whichit is marginally responsive.That "injection" a well worn,but wholly duplicitous sellingpoint. They had the owners ofthe long established ACEHardware in Pahrump amongits most ardent supporters,
CCA Says “Independent studies have shown no correlation between property values and prox-imity to a detention center of corrections facility.”
CCA is shamelessly lying.
No Correlation? How do you explain The National Institute of Corrections / Department of Jus-tice report that cites an FIA / FAU study which specifically demonstrates the correlation of anaffluent community in Goodyear, AZ being within 3 miles of what was a 1500 bed Arizona facil-ity as causing a 12% drop in property values. Haven’t your property values decreased enoughalready? Can you afford for your home to be worth 12% less than it is today?
Now if that isn't a bald faced lie, nothing is. Just take a look at Bob Norman's Channel 10 piece which demonstrates that this wonderfulpartner with the Town has already shorted the county tons of money that could have helped our $120MM school district short-fall. Norman says they shorted the county by $60,000 a year in property taxes because they put cows on the property for a fewweeks in January. As they bought the property in 1998, that's like 13 years at $60k per year or almost $800,000 total and they haven't even got started! Yeah, somefriend of schools.CCA alleges it will pay considerable local taxes. In actuality, it fights tax assessments at every opportunity. It is rare that it compensates adequately for the considerablelocal services it receives in terms of law enforcement, riot control, burdens on courts and consumption of utilities such as water and sewage. In Youngstown, Ohio,where staff was regularly assaulted, inmates were murdered and four killers were among a mass breakout, the school district sued for years because CCA refused topay non-abated taxes.They have demonstrated that they are predatory and will do whatever they can to avoid paying their fair share. Lucibeth Mayberry has gone on record saying essentiallythat they will use whatever loophole they can to avoid taxes.
At the right you’ll find that the following clause in theONLY LEGAL CONTRACT IN EXISTENCE between the Townof Southwest Ranches and CCA .This is SWR’s LEGAL and contractual statement of howwell they are going to treat our schools through prop-erty taxes which are used almost exclusively to fund theschools.
WWW.NOPRISONSWR.ORG
Released detainees are transported to the closed public transportation hub. That happens to be the SW Regional Library , right next to theCharter High School, Broward College and FIU.
An Open & Transparent Process.Read the FACTS & YOU decide:
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We have been repeatedly told bythe Mayor of SWR and othertown officials that the reliance ona prison as an integral part of theirability to sustain themselves as anindependent municipality hasalways been A WELL KNOWNpart of the plan.Lets look at theplan shall we?First stop is the Town's websiteand the description. The HistoryPage makes no mention of thedependence of our future on aprison. Given that Vice MayorDoug McKay has repeatedly ad-monished us that "we didn't doour homework", we are surprisedto find no mention of the corpo-rate partner that will save thetown. Next we went to the HomePage which even describes someof the zoning of the Town.There is NO mention of a prison.Looking through various Townbudgets which generally containquite a bit of commentary, wefindno mention of a prisonandback in 2005 a couple of mentionsof "CCA." (If you didn't knowwhat CCA was you'd breeze rightpast these mentions in spread-sheets.) Only the last budget,2011, is quite in depth (and worthreading if you have the time).So no mention of a Prison.Well,that's no surprise as promoting theTown as a haven for prisons andas a place where the majority of nonresidential taxes come from aprison is something to be ashamedof, not something to advertise.And Town officials have beencomplicit in not advertising this.Next, look at the Town's officialdocument describing the plans forthe Town's growth and develop-ment. This document is called the
Town of Southwest RanchesComprehensive Plan.
The docu-ment itself states its own purposeand how its basic elements camego be: The Town's first Compre-hensive Plan was adopted by theTown Council on May 8, 2003.
Southwest Ranches Town Attorney Keith Poliakoff sent anemail urging town leaders to maintain a "cone of silence"about a proposed immigrant detention center in SWR toavoid growing public unrest."The sharks are beginning to circle," wrote Poliakoff.
"We should remain fully quiet"
and that "if [Lynn] gets aton of calls we will issue a carefully crafted press release,but until then, the less we say the better off we will be."
It is dedicated to developing strategies and policies to ensure preserving, protecting and enhancing the quality of the Town's RuralLifestyle . There is no mention of a prison, correctional facility, jail, "processing center" or anything of the sort expressed or im-plied in their meaning of
rural
. Yet, Steve Breitkreuz told us at the December 22, 2011 Council Meeting that a prison was part of preserving our rural lifestyle. A reading of the document only locates two mentions of "prison" as POSSIBLE uses of land withinthe town. This comprehensive plan SHOULD contain a description of the prison and how our town is dependent on it. It doesn't. Itdoesn't mention ANY plans for a prison.Let's take a look at one of the first public ordinances related to the prison and let's see how much they wanted you all to know aboutThe infamous Sylvan Pass plat was discussed inOrdinance 2001-08. The only mention of the necessary prison that everybody in thetown agreed and banked upon was here:
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