[NativeNewYorker]

From the linked letter: "We stand ready to provide the details on costs..."

As much as I detest Jenny, if she's negotiating to rent out Michigan prisons, it's not a horrid idea. Of course, Arnold doesn't have any money to pay for this, and the ACLU idiots will try to block this, but still...

[Kieri]

The devil is hiding in the details, like who’s going to pay for the cost of transporting all those felons to MI, and back to CA once their out? What if they don’t want to return to CA? How about all the civil rights whiners insisting that their families be accommodated locally for conjugal visits at taxpayer expense?

Ooooooooooh, I don’t want to think about this anymore.

[cripplecreek]

it's not a horrid idea.

Actually it is. We're still cutting the number of guards creating a dangerous situation on that front. Their families will follow and I suspect a large number of those families are illegal aliens, welfare families or both.

[grellis]

From a financial standpoint it makes a certain amount of sense, but here in Lansing we are reaping the "rewards" of prisoner outsourcing on a small scale. Ingham County has been selling bedspace in our jail to other MI counties. The prisoners get here, begin making contacts with the local criminal element, and decide not to leave. For them, Lansing is a "fresh start," but not in a good way--they may have worn out their welcome in Oakland County, but they're newbies here. I have no reason to believe that won't happen with cross-continent criminals.

They'll just have to get used to the snow.