| 6/22/2009 7:01:25 PM | retired co |
| After working in the dept of corrections for 30 years I sa all kinds of waste. The biggest is the unit managment concept and the ACA accreditation both are money pits designed to make it good for the inmate. This cost has been outrageous and was started with the Celeste administration. Cut out all the frills for the cons and make time hard for them . Why does a 50 year old con never going to walk the streets again need a high school education. Another pet project is the college degree program for them we pay in the long run for all these programs . Cut the Jobs where they are needed not the guys and gals in the trenches with these low lifes |
| 6/23/2009 11:26:30 AM | here&now |
Being one of these cons you speak of I think it only fair for me too voice my opinion.
Prison is not a walk in the park as you would lead people to believe.
Are there things that prisoners shouldn't have ? Sure! Is education one of them ? No!! Who would you rather walk out after years inside, a man that has a skill to find a job or a man who has nothing but the skills that led him to prison in the first place? |
| 6/25/2009 12:07:44 PM | concerned citizen |
| Seriously!!We don't want to raise tax dollars, but its ok to continue to feed the fire. Its ok to help citizens feed thier gambling addiction to the tune of millions of dollars because the state is in a crisis? So the citizens gamble more, lose money they don't have, committe more crimes, go to jail, and we are stuck paying for them to. While they sit in jail and enjoy posting blogs, getting free health care, and eating free food. Guess what, Its not free, and i am tired of paying for it. Gambling is just like drugs, and it causes crime. Find another way to make ends meet, and start thinking about the well-fare of the citizens. |
| 6/25/2009 1:33:04 PM | here&now |
| I agree that gambling causes major problems and leads to crime and debt along with many other concerns. and for the record NO inmate in the country is allowed to post blogs. I am a free man and have been for a while. |
| 6/28/2009 3:16:23 PM | retired co |
| Prison was never meant to be a walk in the park you paid for your crime did your time now you are free. Hopefully it was a eye opening experience for you to continuwe to do right . However the tax payers are not responsible for you to get a education in prison at our expense.If you want a degree get a job and go earn it after you get out and you pay for it. If you are doing life and never going to see freedom again why should tax payers pay for you a high school diploma or a college degree. Yes lifers attend college too I saw the needless wastew in the prison system with numerous programs. |
| 6/28/2009 4:15:33 PM | here&now |
| Retired CO, I agree that a prisoner doing life or a number of years that he can never do should not be worried about an education and shouldn't be allowed to persure one I will not agrue that fact with you it is a waste of money. But I guy like my self and many like me doing time are coming home and if they didnt know anything going in then they wont when they come out. And all their left with is the same thing they had that led them to prison. If you give a guy a chance while he is there to learn a skill then maybe he can come out and build a life and even pay taxes. But to say that they can do that when they get out is... well its wrong. Help then while they are there. So they dont go back. Thats why recidivism is the way it is now. |
| 7/3/2009 7:35:54 PM | Concerned person |
| If more judges would let the low level prisoners get into some of the rehibilitation programs offered then we would have more people getting out of prison earlier. I feel everyone deserves a second chance. I have read the other comments like the guy who workes for prisons I'm sure you have not done everything right in life always so don't judge. I agree people that are not going to get out of jail should not be eligible for schooling but people doing 2-5 should be offered a opportunity to learn something different to be more productive when they are released. I feel companies discriminate if someone has been in prison because they have served their debt to society. |
| 7/15/2009 9:23:49 AM | Misty Rider |
| I've seen the prison operations from the inside and out for over twenty years now. Officers boast how they make more than the Warden due to overtime. People have abused the time and system. Inmates getting things they don't deserve. Wah! Seen it to often. Educate me they complain. Then as I've seen when they get out the majority go back in, and they can't find a job anyway because no one wants to hire a con. The union is a joke. They fight for people who don't need to be working there. Stop paying the inmates to work. Put them in hard times. What the world is going on? Stick it to them. Make it to where they don't want to come back. Hard times, mean fewer crimes. No smoking, well not now, ha, ha. When they make their illegal hooch and tatooing, give them more time. If they sas, give them more time. Make it to where when they see the light of day, they won't want to go back. Ohio has made it to easy. And for you fellow workers out there in the prisons, you know what I'm talking about. Start paying the officers single rate instead of double to work more time. They brag they make more than the wardens. Cut it down to one officer per pod. Make some institutions start double bunking. Who cares what others say. Our state is broke. Cut all programs except food service. Give them a tv for one room and that's it. No sports either. Cut retirement to 25 and out. Stop all overtime. For years people have abused it. Chopping officers down to one to work both pods would help a lot. Two is not needed when one is leaving post frequently. They are ways to save if you'd look closer and closing prisons is not the answer. The answer lies with the inmates and what they don't deserve and it lies with abusive use of time and leave. |
