Changes proposed by departments as part of the state budget process call for selling five prisons to private vendors, trimming money for children’s hospitals, food banks, drug courts and child care subsidies, and closing a youth prison, according to proposals obtained by the Dayton Daily News.The proposals are subject to change as Gov. John Kasich’s administration continues to prepare for the two-year budget he will unveil March 15. Kasich will deliver his first State of the State address at noon today.The proposals, if enacted, would impact programs targeted for children to senior citizens. But they also include several revenue-generating scenarios, from allowing timber sales on state park land to selling oil and natural gas leases there. A bill has been introduced in the Ohio House that would open 203,000 acres of state land to drilling.The Kasich administration declined comment on the proposals. “The governor’s office refuses to confirm any details of the budget in advance of its release,” Scott Milburn, Kasich’s director of communications, said Monday.
I'm shocked, Kasich may be selling infrastructure? Who would guide him in privatizing prisons? Let me see: from the Ohio Department of Rehablitation and Corrections Director, Gary Mohr's biography:
Gary C. Mohr is director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC). Appointed by Governor John Kasich in January 2011, he is a 37-year corrections professional with a national reputation for innovative and efficient prison management. Throughout his career, Director Mohr has served in a number of corrections leadership positions in both public and private sectors...Two of these prisons are already privately operated, but this is one of the areas of privatization I think leads to serious abuses and poor governance. Prisons are pretty bad places to begin with, but to add a profit motive to treating inmates poorly doesn't make sense to me.
In 2005, Director Mohr founded Mohr Correctional Insight, where he advised the Corrections Corporation of America in areas of staff leadership and development, and implementing unit management.
The 1965 Social Security Act created a trust for the protection and provision of care of at-risk populations, including the elderly, children, and pregnant women. A tennet of society is the protection of people unable to protect themselves. I am glad to see Kasich slashing those programs in Ohio. Who needs children, the elderly, or people at risk?
ReplyDeleteWhy create legislation to run the infrastructure more efficiently when you can sell the infrastructure to a middleman who increases costs.
I wonder if I qualify for the citizenship requirements of Canada? I've heard Saskatoon is lovely in the fall.
Both days of fall in Saskatoon are lovely. The six months of winter though...
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