Prisoners sent to Mississippi

Sacramento Bee ^ | August 18, 2007 | Andy Furillo

[NerdDad]

California corrections officials have begun sending hundreds of foreign national inmates against their will to a private prison in Mississippi as part of a stepped-up, out-of-state transfer plan. The first two flights of prisoners to the Tallahatchie County Detention Facility in Tutwiler, Miss., have taken place without incident, officials said, in spite of fears expressed by the California correctional officers union that the forced transfers would be met with inmate violence.

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Excerpt of Sac Bee Article

[NerdDad]

California dumping their illegals into Mississippi to "save money".

[Jaysun]

California corrections officials have begun sending hundreds of foreign national inmates against their will to a private prison in Mississippi......

Against their will. That's stupid.

[NerdDad]

Missippy Ping yall.

California is sending “hundreds” of their foreign national prisoners (mostly Mexican) to private prison in Tutwiler MS.

Oh joy!!

[Spruce]

Send the bill to Mexico?

[noamnasty]

They invite and even finance their invasion, with sanctuary city’s then make a poor state like this support them .

[Hurricane]

A link to their facilities.

http://www.correctionscorp.com/facilitylist.cfm

[NerdDad]

Stupid is just the tip of it. Nothing like importing unhappy prisoners into the state. Can’t imagine that this is going to be a good thing for the environment inside the walls at Tutwiler especially with it being hotter than the hinges to the gates of hell here.

Hope the company is running a tight ship there. And I hope the citizens in the surrounding area are well armed to handle the eventual prison break.

[NerdDad]

This is in Tallahatchie County MS

Info from the site you linked:

Facility Type: male Maximum-security CCA owned facility since Mar-00
Total Beds: 1,104
Customer Base: Tallahatchie County (County Jail) and the states of Mississippi and Hawaii (and now California).
About Tutwiler: Tallahatchie County Correctional Center is located one and a half miles north of the city of Tutwiler on U.S. Highway 49 and occupies approximately 27 acres of the 149-acre site.
Tutwiler, MS is a rural farming community with a population of about 1,800. It is noted to be where “Blues Begin.” The current Mayor is Robert Grayson.

[rogue yam]

Against their will. That's stupid.

I would have assumed that the whole incarceration thing was not according to the prisoners' will to begin with.

[Jaysun]

I would have assumed that the whole incarceration thing was not according to the prisoners' will to begin with.

Exactly. You don't have people banging on the doors of prisons asking to get in.

[mrsmel]

That’s just lovely. they won’t pass laws to control illegal immigration and citizen rights in their own state, then they ship the worst of the illegals to us. I wonder what genius in Mississippi agreed to this, though?

[eyedigress]

Tennessee has been housing California inmates for some time. I don’t know their legal status though. Maybe their trying to break up the prison gangs out there.

[xarmydog]

Yeah,just wait till their families relocate there to be close to their convict relatives.Mississippi had better have the funds to support them,I.E.,food stamps,hospital care,and any and all welfare available.Say what you want but they opened three prisons here in West Texas within ten miles from where i reside.Californicate is smart.They know many families will move to be with their loved ones.They have to be near their loved ones as they know they were wrongly convicted./sc

[NerdDad]

“I wonder what genius in Mississippi agreed to this, though?”

Since the prison is a private corporation, I wonder if there is any state oversight of those decisions? I know they have to comply with Department of Corrections requirements but I don’t know if that includes anything about where the prisoners come from.

[NerdDad]

“Maybe their trying to break up the prison gangs out there.”

Break up the gangs would be great. However ... Export them to other states is a more likely outcome of this policy.

[xarmydog]

Oh,and when may are released,they have a tendency to stay there.Watch the crime escalate.The monies made to house these fine individuals will in no way offset the added expense of policing them after their release.If I lived there,I would sell as fast as possible and get out of Denver while the gettins’ good.I have seen it firsthand.

[vetsvette]

“officials have begun sending hundreds of foreign national inmates against their will to a private prison in Mississippi”

Criminals not given their choice of correctional facilities??

Horrors!! What about the Constitution?? I know that there’s a prohibition against this in there somewhere among the emanations and penumbras.

[vetsvette]

“what genius in Mississippi agreed to this, though?”

Are there any geniuses in Mississippi?

(just kidding)

[NerdDad]

“Californicate is smart.They know many families will move to be with their loved ones.They have to be near their loved ones as they know they were wrongly convicted.”

Your theory sounds frighteningly plausible. Unfortunately. And you are dead right about the economic impact on the area.

West Texas? Where? I grew up in Kermit and worked all over that area in the oil fields before going to the AF from 77-84. Managed the Monahans DQ in the late 80s before returning to my wife’s home state of MS.

[wildbill]

What we have here is a faiure to communicate.[Cool Hand Luke}