3 prisons to close in upstate NY

[stuvian]

https://www.syracuse.com/state/2020/12/3-upstate-ny-prisons-to-close-in-early-2021-nearly-1000-jobs-affected.html

[TBBills]

That's good, too many prisons as is.

[stuvian]

I feel for the small towns whose economies are based on them. No idea as to whether they operate at capacity

[SDS]

12 minutes ago, stuvian said:

I feel for the small towns whose economies are based on them. No idea as to whether they operate at capacity

 

That's messed up.

[Teddy KGB]

32 minutes ago, TBBills said:

That's good, too many prisons as is.

where are we gonna put all the bad people ? 

[Michael1962]

8 minutes ago, Teddy KGB said:

where are we gonna put all the bad people ? 

good point, they can't all run for public office.

[RaoulDuke79]

1 hour ago, Teddy KGB said:

where are we gonna put all the bad people ? 

California 

[TBBills]

1 hour ago, Teddy KGB said:

where are we gonna put all the bad people ? 

Stack them up together like other countries.

[stuvian]

2 hours ago, Teddy KGB said:

where are we gonna put all the bad people ? 

Foxboro, Mass?

[BuffaloBill]

4 hours ago, Teddy KGB said:

where are we gonna put all the bad people ? 

 

Have no fear, they will hang out here with the rest of us.

The prisons cost $32K per year per cell. I understand prisons are a necessary insitution but what a waste of human lives and money.

[Teddy KGB]

14 minutes ago, BuffaloBill said:

 

Have no fear, they will hang out here with the rest of us.

The prisons cost $32K per year per cell. I understand prisons are a necessary insitution but what a waste of human lives and money.

yikes, that’s way too much.  

[Beast]

When someone commits their second violent felony there should be an island where they're are banished to with other violent felon offenders and let them fend for themselves.

 

Set up cameras around the island and have pay per view. Instead of losing money on these clowns turn them into revenue generators.

Edited December 27, 2020 by Beast

[Bill from NYC]

17 hours ago, Teddy KGB said:

where are we gonna put all the bad people ? 

In our neighborhoods. Where else would one even suspect that they would wind up in?

[Chandler#81]

See? Make weed legal and the prisons empty. Who’d a thunk?😳

[Tiberius]

14 hours ago, Beast said:

When someone commits their second violent felony there should be an island where they're are banished to with other violent felon offenders and let them fend for themselves.

 

Set up cameras around the island and have pay per view. Instead of losing money on these clowns turn them into revenue generators.

And then some other clown will go out and murder someone to get on the island to become the next King of Murder Island.

 

 

1 hour ago, Chandler#81 said:

See? Make weed legal and the prisons empty. Who’d a thunk?😳

Looks like they need to make it more legal, like just let people grow it themselves

 

 

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That was in 2015. Four years later, just a week before his re-election race, federal agents ignominiously led him away from his home in handcuffs and charged him with attempting to extort cannabis companies of $600,000 in exchange for granting them lucrative licenses to sell weed in his impoverished city.

“Mayor Correia has engaged in an outrageous brazen campaign of corruption, which turned his job into a personal ATM,” declared U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling during a press conference announcing the charges.

The downfall of Fall River’s young mayor wasn’t just a tragedy for the thousands of people who invested their hopes in him: It was emblematic of a rash of cannabis-related corruption across the nation, from Massachusetts to California to Arkansas and beyond.

In the past decade, 15 states have legalized a regulated marijuana market for adults over 21, and another 17 have legalized medical marijuana. But in their rush to limit the numbers of licensed vendors and give local municipalities control of where to locate dispensaries, they created something else: A market for local corruption.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/27/marijuana-legalization-corruption-450529

[That's No Moon]

On 12/26/2020 at 12:14 PM, stuvian said:

I feel for the small towns whose economies are based on them. No idea as to whether they operate at capacity

The next time someone talks about the multiple motives behind incarcerating people remember this thread. Not everyone who goes to prison is a murdering psychopath. 

 

There are large, for profit, corporations that will be more than happy to run prisons for you. Those companies unabashedly lobby for longer sentencing guidelines because they are good for business.

[Bill from NYC]

16 hours ago, That's No Moon said:

The next time someone talks about the multiple motives behind incarcerating people remember this thread. Not everyone who goes to prison is a murdering psychopath. 

True. Most of them are wonderful people, right?

 

Tell me, do you advocate bringing them into your nerighborhood? Would you like their offspring to attend school with your children?

Edited December 28, 2020 by Bill from NYC

[Just Jack]

On 12/26/2020 at 8:04 PM, Beast said:

When someone commits their second violent felony there should be an island where they're are banished to with other violent felon offenders and let them fend for themselves.

 

Set up cameras around the island and have pay per view. Instead of losing money on these clowns turn them into revenue generators.

 

Like maybe NYC or LA? 

[BUFFALOKIE]

10 hours ago, That's No Moon said:

The next time someone talks about the multiple motives behind incarcerating people remember this thread. Not everyone who goes to prison is a murdering psychopath. 

 

There are large, for profit, corporations that will be more than happy to run prisons for you. Those companies unabashedly lobby for longer sentencing guidelines because they are good for business.

I came here to say something similar. A privatized penal system is complete bull####, and very scary.

[LeviF]

New York doesn't use private prisons, geniuses.