Been there.
Posted on 09/09/2007 10:33:48 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Working at the prison can be dangerous and stressful, but it has always offered a much-coveted perk: job security.
While factories have downsized or shut down in recent years, the area's prisons have been relatively safe from layoffs. But the state's recent budget woes have upended that stability, leaving employees at Jackson County facilities in a state of uncertainty.
State Department of Corrections officials announced in February plans to close Southern Michigan Correctional Facility -- one of five prisons in Jackson County -- as a step toward filling a $92 million deficit in the Department of Corrections budget. But the closure has been delayed -- and could be derailed -- by pending litigation.
While some are still hopeful the prison will remain open, the unanswered questions, rumor and unknown have worn on employees at Southern Michigan, who earlier this year numbered more than 400. They may have to move to a different Jackson-area prison, or to Coldwater, or Adrian, or even the Upper Peninsula. They could be working first, second or third shifts, or be working with prisoners housed at a different security level.
(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...
Signs your socialist Canadian governor has wrecked your states economy:
Even private prisons are in trouble!
5 prisons in one county?
Been there.
“5 prisons in one county?”
It used to be one big prison. It was broken into smaller units to make it so it could be managed (partially in response to riots and court rulings).
Is this what they call Jackson Prison, the largest walled prison in the world?? There seems to be multiple prisons in the area that they are referring to, so I am not sure if it is “the big one” that they are closing.
“Where have you gone John Engler, a State turns it’s lonely eyes to you....”
Mmmm...let’s do the math....less factories - jobs = more jails. Equation worked for the Old Soviet Union.
Solution? Keep voting Democrat...yeh... that’s the ticket!
Hop on board the Michigan train to Siberia.
The scourge of Granholm spreads its destruction.
“Where have you gone John Engler, a State turns it’s lonely eyes to you....”
He was a good gov — for his first 4 years. After that, he was seduced by increasing tax revenues, and spent every dime of it w/o looking to downsize anything. The GOP ran things for the better part of 16 years, and the state of affairs here is the legacy of that reign.
Why can’t we “outsource” our prisons....to China? Cheaper, more effective, maybe more of a deterrent?
Like most, I don’t think much of Jenny but Michigan’s present problems go way back as you state.
“Like most, I don’t think much of Jenny but Michigan’s present problems go way back as you state.”
This is the first year that Jen had even one side of the Legislature on her side. The preceding 16 years had the GOP in control of both sides, and holding the Gov’s mansion for the first 12.
No doubt that Jen Granholm has failed to provide leadership. No doubt she’d love to spend us into bankruptcy, even if Michigan suddenly had the oil revenues of the UAE. No doubt that her own party considers her a mouthpiece of the liberal “coalition” members. However, just because she hasn’t fixed things doesn’t mean she broke them to begin with.
Future uncertain! Film at 11.
But...they'll still have a job.
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