They are going to house criminals, not politicians. Oh, wait a minute, oh yeah........
NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD !!!
ROFL
Hmmmm...
First, the Gitmo detainees - now, this...
Is Michigan angling to become The American Gulag???
Jennifer Granholm strikes again.
Here in Texas, small towns will campaign to get local prisons built. It’s money coming in, and provides jobs. That said, many of the prisoner families end up moving into the area, so crime goes up and neighborhoods go down.
It’s a lucrative business, housing prisoners.
“Gov. Granholm is now left to decide if the state will accept hundreds of terrorism suspects now held in Guantanamo Bay instead.”
That should work out well, what with the proximity of Dearborn and all...
The solution for California is simple: Joe Arpaio-style tent jails in the desert. By international laws, military style field conditions are *not* a violation of human rights. And they cost just a fraction of “brick” jails.
This not only solves California’s prison overcrowding problem, but provides much more space per inmate, and with multiple facilities allows for segregation and separation of gang members. Numerous subsections of the tent cities can be split off with internal fences, like cell blocks, and particularly troublesome prisoners can even be individually isolated.
Inmates who are illegals and are serving time for non-violent crimes should be released to their country of citizenship immediately.
Inmates who have non-violent offenses should be released based upon a fine and payment schedule; paying money to the victim and the state for parole supervision.
Correctional peace officers retirement should return to the pre 2000 formula. No 3.0 per year at age 50.
Public employee unions should be prohibited from contributing to those who negotiate, approve, or vote on their pay, benefits, and job conditions.
The department of corrections can greatly reduce overtime by using hundreds of part-time or new full-time employees. Accelerate hiring. A veteran officer working overtime gets 150% of top pay. A new employee gets 125% of base pay including benefits.
Inmates who have money in their accounts should be charged a $15 co-pay for sick call and medical treatment.
An additional existing prison should be dedicated to maximum security and more until the inmates who want to program and not act out are together in whatever number of prisons needed to keep them separate from the idiots and fools. Such prisons should be integrated.
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Now, a private entrepreneur could buy the prisons, Standish and Muskegon, that the State is closing and open them with non-union employees and bid for the business to house prisoners from California and other States.