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"New Page 1 Though the public at large \n    has been largely unaware of their impact, two spokesmen for Shelby County \n    jailers, Jeffrey Woodard and Warren Cole, played a major role in \n    the resolution of the ongoing prison-privatization controversy &amp;#150; reached, at \n    least temporarily, last week when both Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton \n    and Sheriff Mark Luttrell distanced themselves from the proposal.Visitors to the Shelby \n    County Commission&amp;#146;s bi-weekly public meetings had, over the last two years, \n    become used to the presence of Woodard and Cole, who would come to the \n    commission dock at the end of each meeting with strenuous and (usually) reasoned \n    protests against the pending proposal to privatize the administration of both \n    the county&amp;#146;s Corrections Center and the downtown county jail.So familiar had the two \n    become that when Woodard appeared on cue at a recent meeting, Commission \n    chairman Tom Moss referred to him jokingly as &amp;#147;the 14th \n    commissioner.&amp;#148; And when neither Woodard nor Cole were in the audience at last \n    week&amp;#146;s committee hearing of the privatization issue, featuring testimony by both \n    county financial officer Jim Huntzicker and sheriff&amp;#146;s aide Harvey \n    Kennedy, commissioners agreed both to notify the two jailers&amp;#146; advocates of \n    the discussion and to postpone any recommendation on the issue until Monday&amp;#146;s \n    meeting.In the interval between \n    the two meetings, Luttrell doomed the privatization proposal by taking a \n    definitive stand against it -- to the consternation of commission proponent \n    Bruce Thompson, who saw election-year politics as the sheriff&amp;#146;s motivation."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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