From prisons in Kentucky and Arizona that is. Due to lack of prison space here in Vermont, the state houses close to 500 prisoners in for-profit run prisons in those two states. Proponents of the homeward migration cite the distance prisoners are kept from family members and the fact that the two prisons are for profit run by Corrections Corporation of America. Profit making or not, CCA can house a prisoner for thousands of dollars less than the cost of in state incarceration. To house the returned prisoners now would require either the building of a new prison which Vermont legislators claim can't be afforded, OR releasing enough prisoners in-state to make room for the returnees. Now, we already have a major recidivism problem with the cons living in Vermont---a 92% recidivism rate by the second year post-release. We don't need more criminals out who should be in.
What to do?? Build medium security prison camps to house the ruffians. Quansit style huts surrounded by barbed wire. Stalags without Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz. Humane, secure facilities that won't cost an arm and a leg like major concrete and steel prisons do.
Activist quote of the month. “Here they are making money from imprisoned people and have separated them from their family,” CCA does make money running prisons. I don't have a problem with that in principle. BUT, I thought it was a prisoner's criminal act that separated him from his family----and society. Bring them home without more new prison space? Thanks, but no thanks.
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/2014/11/09/coalition-wants-vt-prisoners-home/18779829/
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