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The Town of Southwest Ranches, Corrections Corporation of American (CCA), and DHS / ICE want to build one of the largest immigration detention centers in the nation within walking distance of thousands of homes; thus, reducing the quality of our life and our community. We do not agree with the federal government privatizing our immigration detention centers throughout the nation when there is clear evidence that privatizing our prisons creates a clear public safety threat. For ICE to continue to privatize these institutions and bring this safety threat through their "secure communities Initiative" to our community is unacceptable. Depriving someone of their liberty is a non-delegable governmental function and privatizing of such a function is infecting our nation like a virus.

The Town of Southwest Ranches has now entered into it's THIRD Fire Contract within the last year now with the Town of Davie, costing taxpayers $120,000 in ramp up fees. They are now closing several roads in western Southwest Ranches charging the tax payers $80,000 for the gates. They have paid an unknown amount of money for lobbying with ICE regarding this prison. They have several lawsuits against the Town, 1- Involving Open Meeting Violations on a November 5th meeting concerning the ICE Detention Center, 2- Open Records Violations, and 3- The Town is putting together a lawsuit to sue Pembroke Pines for breach of contract because the City utilized their exit clause and cancelled for convenience their Fire/EMS contract which included water and sewer at the last minute for the CCA prison. In the contract it states that there should be no third party beneficiaries. CCA would be a third party in this instance.

CCA has also filed suit in Federal court against the City of Pembroke Pines saying they are denying them water however the City had never seen a water application. The City did file for a Declaratory Judgement in State Court but that has been put on hold until the Federal Court hears the suit from CCA.

Is ANYONE CONFUSED as to why the Pembroke Pines/Southwest Ranches Fire Agreement was cancelled? The Town Attorney Keith Poliakoff attempted to "slip" into the agreement a portion that guaranteed water for the prison at CCA's request. This is something that should have been brought up separately. CCA should have brought it forward on their own in a water application. This is sleight of hand that CCA and the Town attempted to do because they were so afraid of CCA being on the Pembroke Pines agenda.

As of June 2012, ICE put out a statement that the site selection was no longer needed due to the fact that the extra bedspace was no longer needed. READ UPDATE HERE!


Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Oops Mayor Nelson did it again...More Lies Uncovered!

Has anyone noticed an absent Mayor in our Town??  He was absent from the October 11, 2012 Council meeting saying he was out of Town and has had no response to the media with regard to the Sign Debacle going on in the Ranches.  We have to wonder if it is to keep him out of public forums so he doesn't get off his talking points too badly.  It's like listening to a robot that stutters (Uh, Uh, Uh.) when he can't remember what he's supposed to say.




At an October 2nd, 2012 meeting that Mayor Jeff Nelson had with the Hispanic Coalition to get their endorsement for his run for reelection, Mayor Nelson was asked about the Southwest Ranches detention center specifically.  His response was that "Broward County Commission approved a 4,000 bed County Prison that's going right beside the 2,400 bed prison that CCA is building."  He said that, "construction on the County Prison is going to start immediately!"

We were curious if the Broward County Commission had recently voted on it and we didn't know so we asked our County Commissioner Lois Wexler if there had been any recent discussion about this.  Here is the official response from her office.
Good Morning,

The County has no plans, and no funding, at this time, to construct a 4000 bed prison next to the State prison.  As to the status and future plans for the Women’s Prison, you would have to contact your State Representative as that is a State owned and operated facility.

Sincerely,

Margaret

Margaret Wolter
Aide to Lois Wexler
Broward County Board of County Commissioners
Phone: 954-357-7005
Fax: 954-357-7044
Clearly Mayor Nelson was not telling the Hispanic Coalition the truth.  Along with the other talking point of there being a State Women's Prison by the CCA property which has now been debunked as well.  The Women's Prison is CLOSED!!  See the State of Florida's official response below!

Mr. REDACTED,

Your inquiry concerning Broward Correctional Institution was forwarded to my office for response.  Broward CI has been closed and will no longer house inmates incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections.

Sincerely
Vicki Newsome
Assistant Bureau Chief
Classification Management

So there you have it folks!  Mayor Jeff Nelson was caught in yet another lie in his attempts at forwarding the Correction Corporation of America's prison scheme.  It seems odd that he would go to such lengths to push the agenda of CCA...  One has to wonder WHY???

In addition, Mayor Nelson's comments at the October 4, 2012 Town Debate had us shocked when he said that the detention center had gone away and would not be back when clearly he had said to the Hispanic Coalition the week prior that CCA was in fact building a prison.  Since ICE has supposedly gone away, what new customer could they entice?  Bureau of Prisons?  US Marshalls??  Only time will tell what ends up happening, but we can say with definite certainty that Mayor Jeff Nelson is LYING THROUGH HIS TEETH about the Broward County building a prison anytime soon!  How can we ever trust anything that comes out of his mouth??
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  1. Bill Di ScipioOctober 18, 2012 at 9:31 AM

    It seems to me that Nelson is just a Stepford Wife to Keith Poliakoff who appear to me to be a pathological lair.

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  2. SherlockOctober 18, 2012 at 11:10 AM

    The State of New Hampshire is currently entertaining a CCA proposal to construct and operate a prison in that state which would replace its public prisons.

    CCA's suing of Pembroke Pines to compensate it for a possible future contract for currently unneeded beds, and enlisting the resources of unwilling taxpayers in Southwest Ranches to fund a similar suit by SWR against Pines should give those in the "Live Free or Die" state considerable caution in considering CCA's proposal.

    Clearly CCA cannot be expected to operate in the genuine interest of any state or municipality while there exists the potential for even higher compensation for its multimillionaire executives.

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    1. No CCA Immigrant Prison in Southwest RanchesOctober 18, 2012 at 11:21 AM

      If any of the NH contingency needs help, they should email notprisontown@gmail.com Being a former New Hampshirite myself, I'd love to help them out with what we've learned defeating these people.

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