Gov. Everyone Has Seen My Penis wants Calif. to build a private prison in Mex.

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http://www.kcra.com/politics/22338974/detail.html


Gov. Suggests Building Prison In Mexico
Schwarzenegger Speaks To Sacramento Press Club


Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger floated an unusual suggestion Monday on how to cut the state's bloated prison costs with a private venture -- build a private prison in Mexico.

"We pay them to build a prison down in Mexico and then we have those undocumented immigrants be down there in a prison and with their prison guards and all this," Schwarzenegger told a gathering of the Sacramento Press Club. "It will halve the costs to build the prisons and halve the costs to run the prisons."

The governor's remark came amid alarm from law enforcement and crime victim groups about a new program meant to thin the state's prison population through early release.

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The plan, the governor said, is to release strictly nonviolent, non-serious felons. And that information, the state's prison chief said, will be shared online with local law agencies.

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The state's plan through the reforms is to release more than 6,500 inmates from California's prisons by the end of 2010.
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which plan do you think the Calif. govt. will go for?

[TheDebbieDee]

1. So, Arnold wants to "outsource" to Mexico our nation's fastest

growing industry? We incarcerate a lot of people. And we employ a lot of people to keep them incarcerated.

We ARE a prison nation, after all.

[tblue]

2. I'm sure Halliburton or Xe is bidding on it as we speak.

They'll profit based in the number of prisoners, with no oversight whatsoever. Gitmo North. Oh great idea, Arnold.

Maria, please talk to your man!

[abelenkpe]

3. All of his plans

to release prisoners? Scary. Non-violent prisoners released early into this economy where everyone is having difficulty getting by and finding work is a recipe for disaster unless we know they have the support they need to become effective members of society. And what do they mean by non-violent? Is a thief non-violent? An embezzler?

Privatizing and outsourcing the prison system? No. We should never privatize the prison system. Ever. If prison guards and their unions pension plans are too costly then they need to be renegotiated so that a level of affordability can be reached without stripping unions of their benefits or paying them too little. There has to be a middle ground reached here that benefits everyone. I'm not a fan of all or nothing situations where business gets things their way to the detriment of workers or vice versa.

[aquart]

4. So steroids do affect reasoning skills. Good to know.

[snagglepuss]

5. Why not outsource Arnold's job to Mexico?

[SoCalDem]

6. Hey.. Ahhhnold's retiring soon, maybe he can BUY Guantanamo

and become the warden...