make-em live in tents in the desert like Sherriff Arparo(sp) does on the border, and make them BUILD THE FRIGGIN WALL!!!
Posted on 10/20/2006 6:20:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
California will begin shipping thousands of inmates to prisons in four other states next month at a cost of more than $51 million a year, corrections officials said Friday.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared an emergency this month to speed up the no-bid contracts with two private companies. He said the transfers are needed to ease crowding in the nation's largest prison system, where more than 172,000 inmates are crowded into space designed for about 100,000, forcing some inmates to sleep in gymnasiums and auditoriums.
The GEO Group Inc. of Florida will be paid an estimated $28.7 million a year to house up to 1,260 inmates at its New Castle Correctional Facility in Indiana.
Tennessee-based Correctional Corporation of America will be paid a projected $22.9 million annually to house up to 1,000 inmates at four prisons in Arizona, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
All 2,260 medium-security inmates are to be moved by March under the contracts signed late Thursday. California prisons had been projected to run out of even makeshift beds by next August, but the transfers will free space until June 2008, the corrections department said.
The companies will be paid $63 a day for each inmate, cheaper than they can be housed in California prisons or jails. But that's still an added cost for taxpayers who are already paying to operate state prisons.
"It's not a cost savings - it's cost effective. It's a good price," said Oscar Hidalgo, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Public employee unions said it is cheaper to send inmates out of state because the contracts let private companies reject inmates who have caused trouble or have mental or physical problems.
Given a comparable inmate population, "we believe we can do it cheaper in California," said Lance Corcoran, spokesman for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, which represents the 30,000 correctional workers in California's 33 prisons.
"They're cherry-picking the least troublesome inmates," added Marc Bautista, vice president of Service Employees International Union Local 1000, which represents other prison employees such as teachers, librarians and nurses.
The three-year contracts allow two-year extensions, which Corrections Secretary James Tilton said will give state lawmakers enough time to consider whether to add more prison cells in California or add programs to trim the inmate population.
This summer, Schwarzenegger proposed building two new prisons, adding cells at existing prisons and shifting thousands of inmates to community programs. The Legislature has not acted on the $6 billion plan.
Read the contracts and emergency declaration Here.
Try http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/ , bad link above.
WAY cheaper, and more like a prison should be run.
No cable tv, no A/C, etc., and stop coddling the criminals.
We wouldn't want somebody to be walking the streets who dared to "import" a handgun that is NOT "not unsafe", by Kalifornia standards. What a tragedy it would be for somebody with criminal intentions to have his handgun jam at a crucial time.
The average Kalifornia voter has got to be one of the stupidest creatures that ever roamed the earth. Ignorance alone cannot explain it.
make-em live in tents in the desert like Sherriff Arparo(sp) does on the border, and make them BUILD THE FRIGGIN WALL!!!
"make-em live in tents in the desert like Sherriff Arparo(sp) does on the border, and make them BUILD THE FRIGGIN WALL!!!"
there is your cheap labor!
If 1/3 are illegal, he should send them to Mexico, free.
Don't Y'all come back now, ya hear?
PS. I heard Nicholas Cage is related to Peter lawford? and the Kennedy clan?
Nice hair extentions, Nick. LOL!
Wisconsin spends a ton of cash each year sending offenders out-o-state, too. and it annoys the libs to no end! Prisons are BIG MONEY in Wisconsin, and even WE can't even handle the influx of losers.
So...what's the story? More perps per capita or better law enforcement? (I'm thinking the former...)
What a joke! 1/3 of California Inmates are illegals.
Send the back and demand payment!
Nothing wrong with this if it cost 52 million to keep them there.
Uh-huh.
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