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Ohio: Private-prison consultant chosen to run ODRC

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Private-prison consultant chosen to run ODRC Tuesday, January 4, 2011 01:37 PM Columbus Dispatch CHILLICOTHE -- Gov.-elect John Kasich, who has said he wants to explore privatizing state prison operations, has chosen a former longtime state prisons official who later worked at a company that operates private prisons to run the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Kasich introduced Gary C. Mohr during a press conference this afternoon at the Ross County Courthouse in Chillicothe, Mohr's hometown. He is the 11th cabinet nomination so far before Kasich takes office on Monday. Kasich and Mohr pledged that all state decisions involving privatization would publicly bid and transparent and that Mohr would abstain from any decision involving his former employer, Corrections Corporation of America, a private operator...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 05, 2011 (boomark / email).