Trib: Otter Is A Forgiving Guv

In his Saturday editorial, Opinion Editor Marty Trillhaase writes that it takes a lot to get black-balled by the administration of Idaho Gov. Butch Otter:

It must take a lot to get black-balled in Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter’s administration. Take Corrections Corp. of America, for instance. This is a company that has bedeviled Otter for the better part of three years. Under its $29 million contract, it so mismanaged the Idaho Correctional Center outside Boise that escalating inmate-on-inmate violence attracted civil rights lawsuits and earned the place its “gladiator school” moniker. Before it was done, CCA had bilked the state for unworked staff shifts, drawn a contempt of court citation from a federal judge and forced Otter to abandon his ideological bent toward privatizing prisons. More here.