Posted on 03/31/2019 6:53:21 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Albany’s pro-criminal crowd is at it again. A bill introduced by the Majority conferences in the Assembly and Senate would give inmates in state prisons a healthy pay raise for work they do behind bars. The proposal triples the minimum wage for prisoners, and naturally, New York taxpayers are expected to pay the bill.
A component of the state prison system is an industrial division called “Corcraft,” where inmates produce a wide variety of products, such as office furniture, apparel and other items. The overarching goal of the program is for inmates to develop skills, and reinforce work ethic to prepare them for eventual release.
But the proposed prisoner pay raise is simply the latest in a growing list of misguided priorities coming out of Albany. Over the past two years, proposals directed at helping rapists, murderers and violent abusers have been abundant and out-of-touch. The initiatives and actions from Albany’s pro-criminal crowd have been nothing short of offensive. Consider that recently New York State has:
(Excerpt) Read more at nyassembly.gov ...
Prisoners are paid?! WTH?
License Plate fees to rise?
Inmates are being paid?!
They elected them.
Even I don’t mind a quarter an hour.
Gives them some commissary money and a purpose besides maybe trying to kill a guard.
Any more than a quarter, I’m out.
The socialist army
“Any more than a quarter, I’m out.”
Living wage! Living wage!
Can’t even bring myself to click on the link. I’m battling a spirit of anger as it is.
LOL
Free room, board, medical, food, no family to take care of, no real worries...
Why I am not in prison!?!?!
$3 an hour - the proposed wage - isn’t exactly a king’s ransom. On its face, it’s not such a bad idea to pay people more than gulag wages to get productive work out of them.
Reminds me of that scene in “Shawshank Redemption”, where that business owner got pissed because the warden was using prison labor and undercutting everyone.
How about after they have payed their debts to society?
Why are you excerpting a politician’s press release?
Here:
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For Release: IMMEDIATELY, February 8, 2019
Contact: Mike Fraser, office: (518) 455-3751; cell: (518) 859-8518
Raising Wages for Inmates Will Raise Eyebrows Across NY
Legislative Column from Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,C-Canandaigua)
Albany’s pro-criminal crowd is at it again. A bill introduced by the Majority conferences in the Assembly and Senate would give inmates in state prisons a healthy pay raise for work they do behind bars. The proposal triples the minimum wage for prisoners, and naturally, New York taxpayers are expected to pay the bill.
A component of the state prison system is an industrial division called “Corcraft,” where inmates produce a wide variety of products, such as office furniture, apparel and other items. The overarching goal of the program is for inmates to develop skills, and reinforce work ethic to prepare them for eventual release.
But the proposed prisoner pay raise is simply the latest in a growing list of misguided priorities coming out of Albany. Over the past two years, proposals directed at helping rapists, murderers and violent abusers have been abundant and out-of-touch. The initiatives and actions from Albany’s pro-criminal crowd have been nothing short of offensive. Consider that recently New York State has:
•Granted parole to a pair of cop-killers;
•Started a program to give computer tablets to every inmate;
•Launched a program to provide tuition-free college to prisoners; and
•Issued unilateral pardons to parolees, restoring voting privileges prior to the end of their sentencing requirements.
At what point will the needs of over-taxed, law-abiding New Yorkers become the priority?
PUTTING PRIORITIES IN THEIR PROPER PLACE
The prisoner pay-hike recommendation comes as the governor and comptroller have issued warnings that the state is facing a dangerous $2.3 billion budget hole. In addition, the governor’s executive budget proposal calls for $4.1 billion in new taxes. Needless to say, there’s a long list of items that require our immediate attention before paying for additional accommodations to incarcerated felons. For example:
•Direct-care professionals – the men and women who provide life-saving care for those with disabilities, our most vulnerable population – have been denied a wage increase by the governor’s budget;
•Towns and villages across the state face funding cuts to their budgets (which are already in place, threatening the services and programs they can provide to residents); and
•Eligibility for the state’s college tuition assistance program (TAP) hasn’t been expanded in nine years. The minimum grant award given to students receiving TAP hasn’t been increased since 2000.
In policy and principle, this is a poorly-timed insult to law-abiding citizens facing real financial hardships, and to the victims whose lives have been turned upside-down by criminal acts.
What do you think? I want to hear from you. Send me your feedback, suggestions and ideas regarding this or any other issue facing New York State. You can always contact my district office at (315) 781-2030 or email me at kolbb@nyassembly.gov.
Leftists are so brain damaged; it boggles the mind how they manage to dress themselves and do basic toilet duty for themselves. They’re are so far gone even the Hubble telescope can no longer see them.
I guess we should be thankful they can still change their own diapers.
And they have free health insurance, room, and board.
“Any more than a quarter, I’m out.”
Living wage! Living wage!
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They are already getting free room and board.
NY is getting insane day after day.
The day will come when prisoners will be sending money home to mom so she can survive. But New York has already started toward upcoming tax increases to pay for this. It couldn’t happen to a better state.
When the homeless started getting better living opportunities in certain states, they flocked there. If they get better living conditions in New York prisons, maybe the criminals will flock there and leave the rest of the US alone.
As the song says: If you can make it there......Sometimes it’s better to want than to have.
rwood
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