[careinke]

Pup,

Don't sugar coat it, tell us how you really feel.

P.S. +1

[the48thronin]

here's somethig you might want to google...


prison industries


And that is American companies using prisoners instead of hiring contract chinese slqaves...LOL

[dinopello]

This is really sad

New Virginia Prison needs inmates

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')his is how bad the economy is in southwestern Virginia: People are wishing they had more criminals in town.

That’s because Grayson County has a brand-new state prison standing empty. No prisoners. And that means no guards, no administrators, no staff, no jobs.

[davep]

Wow. It's like somebody's having a really bad game of Sim City.

[ian807]

Wait.

[Outcast_Searcher]

Well, I just saw a piece on PBS about the Supreme Court ruling that prisons are overcrowded in California, and they have to fix it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/opini ... rison.html

California is technically bankrupt. Maybe they can get Virginia (and other states with excess capacity) to house their surplus prison population cheaper than they can build more prisons.

That or they just have to let them out, though of course they vigorously denied this possibility in the PBS discussion on this.

Since you can't get politicians to work together, my guess is bad solutions will be found to both situations. I can hear it now from the left. The only way to fix this is MORE GOVERNMENT!

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ian807', 'W')ait.

[dinopello]

Another prison in Virginia closing down, decimating the town.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hen things got tough, the people of this Southside hamlet made a hard decision. They welcomed into their midst the Mecklenburg Correctional Center, a sallow-trimmed building filled with murderers and rapists that promised to pump jobs and revenue back into the ailing economy.

But as the town prepared for its 200th anniversary in February, it was blindsided by news the state planned to shutter the prison, which houses about 730 inmates.

Boydton ultimately will lose 20 percent of its annual budget — revenue that comes from providing sewer services to the prison

[Rod_Cloutier]

If they actually began prosecuting for banking fraud, mortgage fraud, securities fraud, ect, ect, I bet they can fill this jail several times over!

Time to get started.

[Serial_Worrier]

The idea that every single community in the world can be economically diverse is unrealistic. Not every hamlet can have a biotech centre.

[basil_hayden]

I know Connecticut sends prisoners to Virgina, and Virginia profits, but why not short circuit the system and just turn them into public schools?

[Fiddlerdave]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ian807', 'W')ait.

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fiddlerdave', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ian807', 'W')ait.

[bratticus]

In related news:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]U.S. prisons becoming ‘old age homes behind bars’
Lynn Herrmann / Digital Journal / February 16, 2012

... In U.S. state and federal prisons, the number of those incarcerated age 55 or older has nearly quadrupled between 1995 and 2010, a 282 percent spike, even as the total number of prisoners grew by 42 percent. There are now 124,400 prisoners age 55 or older. ...

... Walking long distances to dining halls, climbing to a top bunk, or just standing for count can be almost impossible for some older prisoners. Added to this are the burdens of incontinence and dementia.

Staff behavior at prisons with high proportions of elderly have had to adapt to these realities. “Prison staff who work with the elderly know it makes no sense to yell at a prisoner who doesn’t understand what they are saying,” Fellner said. “As one sergeant told me, staff have to give older prisoners ‘a little more leeway’ when it comes to enforcing the rules.”