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Spiffy new jail too expensive to open
United Press International ^ | March 16 | upi

Posted on 03/17/2006 7:29:09 AM PST by george76

A $59 million jail featuring art and flat screen TVs in Portland, Ore., has been sitting unused for more than a year as the city can't afford to open it.

The Wapato Facility took two years to construct and can house 525 inmates at a cost of $20 million per year, ....

The county spent more than $600,000 on art for the jail, including a sculpture out front by the circular driveway.

There are 30-foot vaulted ceilings and private showers.

"I love coming to an empty $59-million jail," Giusto told the Los Angeles Times. "I get tired of telling people how dumb we are."

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To: george76

This cannot possibly be true ... can it?


61 posted on 03/17/2006 9:25:28 AM PST by manwiththehands (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: antiRepublicrat

What's that skinny brown thing, a hall tree with hot water bottles hanging on it?


62 posted on 03/17/2006 9:27:29 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: george76

I never want the word 'spiffy' associated with a jail.


63 posted on 03/17/2006 9:29:10 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: manwiththehands
"Further frustrating Giusto is a shortage of jail beds that has forced police around the city to systematically release inmates early to make room for new ones."
64 posted on 03/17/2006 9:31:50 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: dfwgator

an empty $59-million jail...

Amazing.


65 posted on 03/17/2006 9:33:01 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Old Professer

They could let rich criminals buy an upgrade to this spify prison.


66 posted on 03/17/2006 9:34:32 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

bump


67 posted on 03/17/2006 11:21:17 AM PST by lowbridge (I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming, like his passengers.)
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To: lowbridge

The city of Raleigh commissioned a sculpture back in the early 90s to build a "Tower of Time and Light" on a busy boulevard for around $50,000.

The city was sold on the idea of what an exclusive piece of art this would be and how the artist was the only one on earth capable of building it.

Despite many objections the project went forward. The unique artist died before completion. His wife and kid finished the project and Raleigh got a 40' tall tower that looks like a cell tower with mirrors hung on it.

Since the installation, brush and weeds have grown up around it, the glass is fogged and it's now mostly an eyesore.

(I know if it was in my front yard the city would have long ago issued an injunction to have me remove it)

http://www.raleighnc.gov/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_306_207_0_43/http%3B/pt03/DIG_Web_Content/category/Government/Boards_and_Commissions/Arts_Commission/Public_Art/Cat-1C-2005308-094538-Time_and_Light.html


68 posted on 03/17/2006 11:35:13 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: george76

ping


69 posted on 03/17/2006 12:04:21 PM PST by ziggy_dlo (freedom security:give up a little of either, you deserve neither liberalcracks)
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To: Ramius
Speechless. $600,000 for art. for a jail. I have no response to that.

is this a jail or a country club?? i can't buy a toaster let alone a flat screen tv bunch of BS kumbyah my Lord kumbyah

70 posted on 03/17/2006 12:11:38 PM PST by ziggy_dlo (freedom security:give up a little of either, you deserve neither liberalcracks)
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To: ziggy_dlo

The DUmmies have way too much of our money.

This is just another example...that we should cut our high tax rates and cut their high spending levels.

There is no real reason our tax money should go to their art work.


71 posted on 03/17/2006 12:15:43 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: antiRepublicrat

I don't know for sure.....I know when I was a the PCC Board I was asked to be on the committee to choose the art, but I did not feel inclined to do so at that time....NOW, I'd probably jump at it!


72 posted on 03/17/2006 2:41:39 PM PST by goodnesswins ( "the left can only take power through deception." (and it seems Hillary & Company are the masters)
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To: george76
A wise man once said:

"A government-funded artist is an incompetent whore!"

73 posted on 03/17/2006 3:24:27 PM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody would have cared if the UAE wanted to buy Macy's...)
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To: SC DOC
"They should turn it into a homeless shelter."

The next hurricane season will be here in about two months.

74 posted on 03/17/2006 3:27:14 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: thoughtomator
“Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

— Ronald Reagan

75 posted on 03/17/2006 3:29:48 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

I wont even ask what the statue 'is of'....probably a tax payer in a compromising position and public official of some sort..an inspiration to public officials and lifers everywhere no doubt.


76 posted on 03/17/2006 3:54:15 PM PST by joesnuffy (A camel once bit our sister..but we knew just what to do...we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
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To: george76
There are 30-foot vaulted ceilings and private showers.

I bet the gay lobby fought hard for those private showers.

77 posted on 03/17/2006 4:20:15 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: scott7278
Without $600,000 worth of art, it's considered cruel and unusual punishment.

I could have saved them $590,000 by having Kinko's make a bunch of these posters to tape on the walls:


78 posted on 03/17/2006 4:25:40 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: george76
A Taj Mahal Jail with creature comforts for the liberals' favorite voters. I get a kick out of a jail no one can be locked up in.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

79 posted on 03/17/2006 4:28:45 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: antiRepublicrat

Taht's art? They look like dead trees and river rocks.


80 posted on 03/17/2006 4:30:13 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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