I imagine that Americans are NOT BOTHERED by the UNCONSTITUTIONAL NATURE of the IDEA!
Why would they be?
AGENDA-PUSHING PAPER thinks TORTURE is FUNNY!!!!!!
"Months of food strikes staged by convicts who complained of being fed green bologna and moldy bread.... makes inmates wear pink underwear to increase the humiliation factor.... as get-tough sentencing and drug penalties increased, the nation's prison populations skyrocketed. Chain gangs returned"
Oh, that could NEVER HAPPEN HERE, right, 'murkn?
"Some states are charging inmates fees for prison stay; Daily charges help ease prison costs amid budget cuts" by Deborah Hastings, Associated Press | August 16, 2009
How DARE WE CRITICIZE ANYONE over HUMAN RIGHTS in this world EVER AGAIN?!!!!!
A one-night stay? Ninety dollars. Need to see a doctor? Ten bucks. Want toilet paper? Pay for it yourself.
In the ever-widening search for extra income during desperate economic times, states across the nation are embracing a new idea: making inmates pay their debt to society not only in hard time, but also in cold, hard cash.
In New York, Assemblyman James Tedisco introduced a bill that would charge wealthy criminals $90 a day for room and board at state prisons. Dubbed the Madoff Bill, after Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, the legislation is designed to ease the $1 billion annual cost of incarcerating prisoners.
Yeah, it ALL SOUNDS GOOD, but YOU KNOW DAMN WELL this isn't going to affect RICHERS!!
See: Your Madoff Minute
The SYSTEM SERVES THEM, not YOU, Amurkn shit-eaters!!!!!!!!!
And WHY HAS THIS ARTICLE been SCRUBBED from the WEB and CUT by the GLOBE?! Aaaaaaaaarrrrrggggghhh!!!!!!!!!
"This concept says if you can afford it, or even some of it, you're going to help the beleagured taxpapyers who play by the rules," said Tedisco, a Republican.
Then LIGHTEN UP on the DRUG LAWS, damn you!!!!!
Several other states and some cities have gone to great lengths to squeeze money from inmates.
Public Loot For Private Projects
You've been had, Americans.
In Arizona’s Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, Sheriff Joe Arpaio calls himself America’s toughest sheriff. Earlier this year, he said inmates would be charged $1.25 per day for meals. His decision followed months of food strikes staged by convicts who complained of being fed green bologna and moldy bread.
In Iowa’s Des Moines County, where officials faced a $1.7 million budget hole this year, politicians considered charging prisoners for toilet paper, at a savings of $2,300 per year. The idea was ultimately dropped. A New Jersey legislator introduced a bill similar to New York’s, this one based on fees charged by the Camden County Correctional Facility, which bills prisoners $5 a day for room and board and $10 per day for infirmary stays, totaling an estimated $300,000 per year.
In Virginia, Richmond’s overcrowded city jail has begun charging $1 per day, hoping to earn as much as $200,000 a year. In Missouri’s Taney County, home to Branson, the sheriff says charging inmates $45 a day will help pay for a new jail.
Prisons and jails took some of the biggest cuts this summer when legislators took machetes to their state budgets, trying to slash their way out of an economic morass exacerbated by dwindling tax revenues.
I'm SO SICK of the LOOTING and the LYING!!!!!!!
Fucking god-damn newspapers!!!!!!!!!!!
But to civil rights advocates and some law enforcement officials, trying to raise money by charging inmates makes no sense.
Yeah, it's not a RULE of LAW ISSUE or anything. You are FINISHED America.
“The overwhelming number of people who end up in prison are poor,’’ said Elizabeth Alexander, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project. Alexander also says such efforts only amount to political window dressing.
It is MORE THAN THAT it is a VIOLATION of the CONSTITUTION!
I guess I'm silly to think that document still means something in America, huh, readers?
Another CUT:
"They allow someone to look tough on crime instead of being effective," she said.
Sigh.
Collecting the fees covers a wide spectrum. In Richmond, they are deducted from a prisoner’s personal account, which contains whatever money relatives send and any cash the suspect had when arrested.
Oh, how CRUEL!!! Loved ones sending money thinking they are EASING THE STAY for their LOVED ONE and the STATE is STEALING IT!!!!
I know they are "criminals," but I THINK DECEIT SUCKS!!!!
In Arizona, Arpaio, who makes inmates wear pink underwear to increase the humiliation factor, also taps prisoner accounts. Inmates who have no money still receive food, the sheriff says.
Other authorities slap the prisoner with a bill upon release from prison.
So he has to GO OUT and COMMIT a CRIME, huh?
But it is often hard to collect. In Kansas, Overland Park officials acknowledged collecting only 39 percent of fees. In Jackson County, Mo., officials discovered they spent more money trying to collect fees than they received from inmates.
Hey, that is GOVERNMENT ALL OVER!!!!
In some cases, it is prisoners’ families who shoulder the financial burden.
“It’s the spouses, children, and parents who pay the fees; they are the people who contribute to prisoners’ canteen accounts,’’ said Sarah Geraghty of the Southern Center for Human Rights, which successfully opposed an effort earlier this year in Georgia to bill prisoners.
Ah, f*** 'em, right? They ain't even human, so....
The money was to be collected by seizing cash in their jail accounts or by filing lawsuits. The proposal also would have denied parole to those who could not make payments after being freed.
--more--"And WHY did this GET LOPPED OFF the ENDING, huh?
I mean, I'M STARING RIGHT AT IT in my PRINTED PAPER and now I have to HAND TYPE THIS? WHY?
"It makes no sense to release people with $25, a bus ticket, and $40,000 in reimbursement fees," she said.
HOLY CRAP! That's ROBBERY!!!!!
So WHY are THESE GUYS in prison?
"Saddling people with thousands of dollars in debt is contradictory to helping someone become a functioning member of society."
In addition to being UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!
Don't you FASCISTA ASSHOLES remember the reasons for the SHAY'S REBELLION?
In recent years, as get-tough sentencing and drug penalties increased, the nation's prison populations skyrocketed. Chain gangs returned to states, including Arizon and Alabama.
Premium cable was eliminated in federal prisons. New York killed an inmate program that paid tuition for college degree programs.
Of course, this was all stuff YOU PAID FOR, taxpayers, while YOU were DENIED SUCH THINGS by the government that luuuuuvvvvs you!!!
And NEVER MIND THOSE TRILLIONS that the BANKS and WAR LOOTERS STOLE!!!!
But trying to make prisoners pay to serve time is a wasted effort, civil rights advocates say. "This is a dry well," Alexander said. "They're not going to solve this [economic] problem by going down it."
Never stopped lying, looting tyranny, 'er, government before.
Asked whether she had heard about Des Moines County's proposal to charge inmates for toilet paper, Alexander laughed.
"I did not," she replied. "That's a good metaphor for the whole effort."
Yeah, except I'M NOT LAUGHING ONE BIT!!!!!!!!!
Not when I have to WASTE TIME RETYPING some SHITTER MSM piece that has been CENSORED!!!! Happens WAY TOO OFTEN for it to be a "coincidence!"
Now please remove that head from the dark warm place you keep it, America.
Btw, you will have to pay for that toilet paper you need to clean up.
And AmeriKa's MSM finally noticed!
"In recent weeks, outrage about the abuse of jailed prisoners, including some who died in custody, has spread from liberals to many conservatives."
Oh, sorry.
Related: AmeriKa: Land of the Free?
Slave Labor Saving AmeriKa
"Town weighs in on Guantanamo detainees; Many want to see Mich. facility stay open at all costs" by Kari Lydersen, Washington Post | August 9, 2009
STANDISH, Mich. - Prison employees and residents of this northern Michigan town are proud of the facility and want to keep it open at all costs, even if that means becoming the new home of Guantanamo Bay detainees....
Yup, even if it means IMPRISONING INNOCENT PEOPLE FOREVER!
You MAKE ME SICK, shit-swilling 'murkns!! 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB!
Get it through your THICK, SHIT-WALLED SKULLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Why not let the verbiage fly sionce I'm bailing on the Globe? When I quit purchasing them, believe me, the anger will lessen because I won't be reading them)
Residents here are most concerned about keeping some of the 340 jobs and other economic sustenance the prison provides....
Yeah, FUCK SAVING a SCHOOL or HOSPITAL or something.
A hand-painted sign outside the lockup begs “Save Our Town, Save Standish Max,’’ referring to the collection of buildings behind razor-topped fencing that contains 604 beds, usually reserved for maximum-security inmates. Throughout the quaint, somewhat ramshackle borough of 1,500 people, marquees and handmade posters outside churches, bars, and Denise’s Beauty Barn carry the same message.
The facility is one of three prisons and five correctional camps slated to close because of the state budget crisis and a declining prison population. The Michigan Department of Corrections needs to cut $120 million from its $2 billion budget for the fiscal year that will start in October, and 500 to 1,000 jobs will be lost with the closings.
State officials are making a last-ditch effort to turn Standish into a medium-security facility for about 1,100 California prisoners. They also proposed housing inmates from Alaska. And then there is the Guantanamo Bay option. Some residents loathe the idea of suspected terrorists locked up in their town, but relish the chance to keep people employed....
Even the choice of words and terminology is insulting to a human being.
Who would really want to pay to read this shit anymore?
Bob Davis, president of the local corrections officers union: “.... There will be CIA all over the place.’’
Already are: Operation Mockingbird
Related: FBI Says Bin Laden Can Strike From U.S. Prison
That's what you are reading every time you pick up your insulting jewspaper, 'murka.
Thomas Birkett, Standish warden, first heard about the proposal on TV. “There had been rumors, but no one in our department knows what it means, no one can tell you anything,’’ he said. Officials from the departments of defense, justice, and homeland security will visit potential sites for Guantanamo detainees in the next few weeks, said the office of Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan.
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Slow Saturday Special: Booking a Room at Abu Ghraib
