Now that the Idaho Board of Correction need no longer look after Corrections Corp. of America, perhaps it can begin taking better care of you. More than three months ago, that board - and by extension, Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter - yanked CCA's $29 million contract to manage the violence-plagued Idaho Correctional Center outside Boise. But while correction board Chairwoman Robin Sandy was willing to consider a new bid from CCA and its competitors, she forbade the Idaho Department of Correction from submitting its own proposal to run the state-owned prison. Things have gone from bad to worse for CCA ever since/Marty Trillhaase, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Izzit just me or is it time for our ideological governor to quit trying to expand prison privatization and allow the Idaho Department of Corrections to submit a proposal?