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MI in talks about California Prisoners
ClickOnDetriot ^ | 06/29/09 | Various

Posted on 06/29/2009 3:27:24 PM PDT by Kieri

LANSING, Mich. -- Empty Michigan prisons could become home to hundreds of California inmates if a deal can be struck.

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm sent a letter Monday to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger formally offering space for some of the inmates California is running out of room to house to Michigan.

Download: Ganholm Letter To Schwarzenegger

Michigan plans to close two prisons by the end of September.

They are the Standish Maximum Correctional facility about 145 miles northwest of Detroit and a medium-security prison in Muskegon, about 45 miles northwest of Grand Rapids.

Michigan could save the jobs of about half of the 1,000 prison guards it plans to lay off by Oct. 1 if California accepts the offer.

A request for comment was left with Schwarzenegger's office Monday.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: California; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: california; corrections; granholm; inmates; michigan; prisoners
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I think I liked it better when Jenny didn't have any ideas.

Isn't this great? We'll go from the "Great Lakes State" to the "Penal Colony"!!

1 posted on 06/29/2009 3:27:24 PM PDT by Kieri
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To: Kieri

Barney Franks to the Rescue Ping!


2 posted on 06/29/2009 3:28:58 PM PDT by cranked
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To: Kieri

“Isn’t this great? We’ll go from the “Great Lakes State” to the “Penal Colony”!!”

the guards will be happy...


3 posted on 06/29/2009 3:29:01 PM PDT by jessduntno (July 4th, 2009. Washington DC. Gadsden Flags. Be There.)
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To: Kieri

Maybe I’m thick, but isn’t the reason Arnold is going to cut the prisoners loose is lack of money?

Is Granholm going to foot the bill for these prisoners or what ?


4 posted on 06/29/2009 3:30:20 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: Kieri

Doesn’t she understand that California cannot pay?
They are now running on IOUs.


5 posted on 06/29/2009 3:30:54 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Kieri
So a state with no money is going to take prisoners from a state with less money. When California can't afford to pay for their care, these fine individuals will be come wards of the state of Michigan, or turned loose on the Michigan population.

Many of the prisoners will be California gang bangers. When they move in, their homeys will move nearby to 'keep the faith' with them, visit them, and carry out their orders. Michigan will gain the worst parts of California at the price of a few hundred jobs for as long as California can pay.

When is Michigan going to wise up and toss that Canadian idiot back across the lake?

6 posted on 06/29/2009 3:37:48 PM PDT by GulchBound (Who owns you?)
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To: Kieri

I’m guessing we get all the illegal alien crimminals after Jenny the genius turns all our loose.

Good lord this woman gets dumber by the second.


7 posted on 06/29/2009 3:39:39 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Kieri

Michigan. The new Australia!


8 posted on 06/29/2009 3:39:44 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: GulchBound
When is Michigan going to wise up and toss that Canadian idiot back across the lake?

Because in Michigan, the inmates are running the asylum.

Literally.

On a bright note, Monica Conyers resigned today. I can see the ticket now -- Conyers/Kilpatrick 2014!

9 posted on 06/29/2009 3:45:07 PM PDT by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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10 posted on 06/29/2009 3:49:38 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Kieri

You’ve go to be kidding.


11 posted on 06/29/2009 3:51:47 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: GulchBound

Granholm got in because she managed to make promise after promise to a welfare constituency. That’s how she got in and stays in.

Hardworking taxpayers are a minority.


12 posted on 06/29/2009 3:53:38 PM PDT by Niuhuru (Anger means your spirit isn't broken)
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To: ElayneJ

LOL We’re also laying off 100 state police because the genius wants to toss a $1 per year lease in a donated building for a $3,000,000 per year lease on a new building.


13 posted on 06/29/2009 3:54:30 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Niuhuru

Thank God she’s term limited.


14 posted on 06/29/2009 3:55:30 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: cripplecreek

At least we have that. Then hopefully Michigan will come out en masse and vote these liberal worms out.


15 posted on 06/29/2009 3:56:49 PM PDT by Niuhuru (Anger means your spirit isn't broken)
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To: Kieri

Michigan has one of the HIGHEST crime rates in the country, even not counting their government. How can their prisons have vacancy signs?


16 posted on 06/29/2009 3:58:29 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Niuhuru

Some days I just can’t help but laugh at the utter stupidity of Michigan democrats. Fortunately our GOP state reps are starting to stand up and cause trouble in Lansing.

My personal favorite granholm idiocy is wanting to spend stimulus money to print roadsigns to show where stimulus money is being spent.


17 posted on 06/29/2009 4:00:42 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Kieri
From the linked letter: "We stand ready to provide the details on costs..."

As much as I detest Jenny, if she's negotiating to rent out Michigan prisons, it's not a horrid idea. Of course, Arnold doesn't have any money to pay for this, and the ACLU idiots will try to block this, but still...

18 posted on 06/29/2009 4:01:33 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: cripplecreek

Governor Jennifer Granholm has “laid a strong groundwork for the state’s future, and he’ll be happy to run on the Democratic governor’s record,” - John Cherry, MI Lt. Governor


19 posted on 06/29/2009 4:03:11 PM PDT by Kieri (The Conservatrarian)
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To: Kieri
After living in MI for two years I can assure all FReepers of one salient fact: Granholm is a moron.
20 posted on 06/29/2009 4:03:24 PM PDT by LiberConservative
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