REAL FACTS ∗ Politicians supporting this project have received financial donations from CCA. ∗ Property Values in a similar neighborhood in AZ dropped 12% after their detention center was built. ∗ Coldwell Banker's prison disclosure and hold harmless agreement that applies to ALL properties West of I- 75, south of Griffin Road and North of Pines Boulevard. ∗ "The sharks are beginning to circle," wrote SWR Town Attorney Poliakoff. "We should remain fully quiet" . How is that open and transparent ? ∗ As a result of declining prison admissions and excess bed space, the Florida Department of Correc- tions will be closing 7 prisons by July 1, 2012, including the Women’s Prison next to the CCA parcel. ∗ This location is part of the Ever- glades. The negative impact on our ever dwindling water supply is unacceptable. ∗ SW Broward is brimming with residential properties and schools. It is no place for a prison. ∗ ICE has two other respondents to their RFP who are eager to have their locations selected for this project. ∗ Who would you believe first... A multi-million dollar company making money off our tax dollars or your neighbors who have been research- ing this company since they an- nounced the detention center?" The South Florida Detention Center R R R RESIDENTS ESIDENTS ESIDENTS ESIDENTS A A A AGAINST GAINST GAINST GAINSTI I I INAPPROPRIATE NAPPROPRIATE NAPPROPRIATE NAPPROPRIATE D D D DEVELOPMENT EVELOPMENT EVELOPMENT EVELOPMENTout. In Crowley, Colorado, they had three health "benefit" plans for em- ployees. Astronomical employee pre- mium contributions meant that few could afford the best plan. The second plan had extremely high co-pays and very limited benefits. The bottom plan was next to worthless. The secretiv e CCA alleges that what it pays is pro- tected "proprietary information," as is the nature of those held inside their prisons. In fact, our recent legal dis- covery efforts have confirmed CCA pays it's non-guard staff as little as $8.80/hour. We are told that we will get "New Jobs with good pay and benefits." That's true to some extent. Certainly the white collar management will get good paying jobs. Their CEO, Danon Hin- inger, made $3.3MM in 2010. That's a great job! We are sure the bene- fits are good too. We can't wait to see those types of jobs come in to our area, especially for all the politicians who have either joined the ranks of the unemployed or that soon will join their ranks. CCA will pay as little as it possibly can, as it does everywhere in the U.S. In the absence of effective monitoring, it can be expected to staff the prison well below contracted levels. If it is able (and it has lost million dollar, multi-state class-action suits that challenged its practices) it will pay less than legal wages. Its benefits are marginal. They brag about their 401K plans, although they have very low participation among staff who are living paycheck to paycheck. In 2000, during a visit to their CADC prison in Florence, Arizona a poster in the break room lauded their retirement. In fact their stock was selling close to $40 at the time and dropped to 28 cents per share by 2001. "Retirements" were completely wiped New Jobs Yes, But Not So Good Pay & Benefits “Hundreds of New Jobs” Locals Need Not A pply Deciphering ‘The Facts’ couldn't continue at the locked down prison. Asked if they were a union crew, we were told that they w eren't, That they sometimes had to buy a single employee "card" to present the appearance of legitimizing the job. They said no one paid dues regularly, nor did they get anything close to prevailing wages. Asked if they trav- eled all over the country doing roofs for CCA, for instance at their Califor- nia City prison in California? They said that they did, that local laborers were not employed. Prison con- struction is a specialty where con- struction jobs are filled by only a On 7/21/04, the day after its second major riot, the Crowley prison was still smoking. It was surrounded by a perimeter of state prison correctional officers to deal with any possible escapes as many of the low paid CCA guards had run for their lives and a huge number resigned in its immedi- ate aftermath. The town where it w as located, Olney Springs, was derelict, with almost all its stores boarded up. A restaurant was open with a well worn, bare board floor. Unable to work because of the riot were half a dozen roofers from Tennessee who had been busy finishing a new cellblock but handful of local workers, usually those in locally licensed specialties such as electricians. We have found this to be the 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 locals and only seemed to use local labor f or site prep, as the cost of bri nging in earth moving equipment would have made employing out-of-state, poorly trained scabs more expensive. It does- n't appear that they used any signifi- cant union labor. (are the carpente rs listening ?) WWW.NOPRISONSWR.ORG swranchesdetentioncenter
