Mich Cap Con ping.
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Personally I think decent reading for inmates is a good thing but that doesn’t really require a librarian.
So each librarian they have in the prison system is costing them $108,000 per year. WTF?
What are librarians and “recreational therapists” doing in the prisons anyway? Prison is a place where we punsih criminals. It should be as unpleasant as we can possibly make it. Cut all that junk out. The prisoners shouldn’t even be out of their cells until their sentence is up.
Alternately put a wall around dearborn and release all violent inmates into that enclosure. Arm them with a shotgun and a sidearm and let them do whatever they want. But shoot them on sight if they approach the wall.
Let the moslems and the prisoners kill each other off. Everyone wins.
We need to run our prisons like they do in Japan.
I ran a prison library for 6 years. I always figured if I was doing my job right, the inmates would stay out of trouble. For the most part, I was right. I also ran the court ordered Legal Library we had. Federal court said we had to have it. It did not say I would be a Lawyer, and, I wasn’t.
Anyway, while I was there, the state of Tennessee cut programs like Michigan is talking about. They ended up saving some staff money because by the end of the first year of the program, almost all the prisons in the system had been damaged by riots.
Now, I am not saying that prison life should be like ‘Club Fed’ or anything, but, you do have to keep the inmates distracted with something, just to keep them out of trouble. Libraries are a rather cheap way of doing that.
Then again, I wouldn’t mind finding one of those $100,000 librarian jobs myself.