Stuff em all in one big room, who cares?

Lets see $10 million dollars divided by 24 inmates is what??

$416,666.67 per inmate?? It's no wonder my taxes are so high !!

They could buy Moose Springs Resort [baldy hughes] for less than $10 million and house ten times as many inmates....outrageous!!!!

Hilton on the Hill

Violent women. Thought it was only violence against women. Women seem to be holing their own in the violence dept.

No sorry jim, that has been set aside for vancouver druggies, those who have problems because of us....you know the ones...
and yes that is a lot of mney per inmate, and that is just to put a roof over their heads....you didn't factor in operational costs, like heat, light, staff, medical and feeding them....

Feeding them? A caterer? Better than airline food? I never read about a lowest bidder dinner provider in the paper. Do they have a mess hall? Their own kitchens? Hope they don't make meth if they have access to a kitchen. Hope they check babies fer drugs there if they get visitors. I will make sure I don't lend my baby to any drug gang. Medical? A live in doctor? Nurse? First aid attendant? I am sure our hospital can spare a doctor or two to be on call for anything that arises at the Baldy Hughes "resort".

I can imagine the need to expand the correctional center, the demands to get in their are apparently not much of a deterrant.

It brings me back to Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County, Arizona, US. You must get e-mails about how he runs his jail. He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them. He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies. He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects. He started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination. He took away cable TV until he found out there was a Federal Court Order that required cable TV for jails, so he hooked up the cable TV again and only let in Disney Channel and the Weather channel. When asked why the weather channel, he replied, so they will know how hot it's going to be while they are working on my chain gangs. He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value. When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton, if you don't like it, don't come back"

They are issued pink boxer shorts and pink socks. There is a lot more, but you get the jest of it. Criminals should be punished for their crimes, not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so then can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.

Maricopa County was spending $18 million a year on stray animals like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over. The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give great classes for anyone who'd like to adopt an animal. The best part? His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million. The prisioners get the benefit of about $.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for adopted animals. Sherrif Joe also has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago where inmates can work, and they grow most of their own food, doing all of the work and harvesting by hand. He also has a pretty good sized hog farm, which provides meat and fertilizer. The fertilizer is used in the Christmas tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6 to $8 for the Holidays, and plant it later.

Do you think we can develop some creative ways for our prisoners to help pay for their keep? Chester

You all remind me of the moths that fly to the light when it is turned on at night.

Fluttering around aimlessly with no idea of what is really happening in the real world.

Well at least we aren't hanging around the back porch at night staring at the butterflys.

What are you doing out there anyway?

In July 1990, the night before the BC Summer Games opened, they turned the lights on at Massey Place Stadium. I swear every darned moth turned up, with thousands of them swarming to the lights.

What a site !!!

The next morning, huge piles of them were found dead at the bottom of the light standards, exhausted from flapping away without something constructive to focus on.

Since then I have made it a habit of looking out for moths, for they seem to continue to stream to the bright lights.


As for what I do?

I turn lights on and off in this fair City of Prince George.

Chester,

The inmates are already involved in the community.......

Where to you think all those sandbags came from????

Filled by the tooth fairy?