{"id":135164,"date":"2017-10-25T11:46:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135164"},"modified":"2017-10-25T18:14:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T00:14:55","slug":"true-horrifying-cost-early-release-prison-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/25\/true-horrifying-cost-early-release-prison-programs.html","title":{"rendered":"The true, horrifying cost of early-release prison programs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheriff Steve Prator of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, is very, very upset over a new set of laws passed in the state that will early-release a bunch of his county prisoners — non-violent and non-sex offenders.<\/p>\n

Is it because of the threat to the public safety? Is it because these are all bad, bad hombres who should continue to make Louisiana “the most imprisoned state” in the nation?<\/p>\n

Well, yeah, he thinks that. But he also has far, far deeper concerns, caught on video.<\/p>\n

The [prisoners] that you can work, the ones that can pick up trash, the work-release programs\u2014but guess what? Those are the ones that they\u2019re releasing! In addition to the bad ones \u2026 they\u2019re releasing some good ones that we use every day to wash cars, to change the oil in our cars, to cook in the kitchen, to do all that where we save money, well, they\u2019re going to let them out!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Never mind it’s going to save the state $262 million. Sheriff Prator’s concerned that it’s going to cost a bit extra to keep his patrol cars washed.<\/p>\n

Good to see his priorities (and love of cheap convict labor) are straight. Because free oil changes for his people by “good” prisoners are far, far more important than whether those folk actually deserve to be in prison, can be afforded by the state to be in prison, or could actually be “good” labor in the outside world.<\/p>\n

Sorry, Sheriff — maybe your deputies will have to learn to do their own cooking.<\/p>\n


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\nLa. Sheriff Furious at New Laws Allowing for Release of \u2018Good,\u2019 Nonviolent Inmates Because \u2018We Use Them to Wash Cars\u2019<\/a><\/span>
\nIn case you ever wondered about the way (some) correctional officers see their inmates, I lead you no further than to Caddo Parish, La., Sheriff Steve Prator, who is ranting and raging mad about new criminal-justice reform laws that will go into effect next month\u2014because it will mean getting rid of cheap labor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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