Craig’s Firm Tries To Lure Prison

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  pthompson on October 07 at 2:57 p.m.

  only if it is equipped with the latest tap tap comodes

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  wheels on October 07 at 2:57 p.m.

  Considering the image that’s being promoted here I’d say absolutely NOT! My take is that we’re getting a little carried away/the corections bus. here.

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  pthompson on October 07 at 2:57 p.m.

  Craig’s Firm Tries To Lure Prison…..

  enough said

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  wheels on October 07 at 3:00 p.m.

  To funny Redman.Seems we were keying at the same moment.Zero comments when I started.

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  Kage_Mann on October 07 at 3:02 p.m.

  There is already a prison near Orofino.

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  moscow_minidoka on October 07 at 3:02 p.m.

  My question is: How on earth can Cassia and Minidoka counties afford the $5000/month+ to pay for this? They aren’t exactly rolling in money…

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  Me on October 07 at 3:09 p.m.

  Strange stuff going on in Hardin Montana……

  http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_e510a634-ab21-11de-a728-001cc4c002e0.html

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  Cis on October 07 at 3:17 p.m.

  With Montana and Oregon both sitting there with brand new prisons… empty, never been used, and no prisoners in sight… and he wants to put one in Idaho??? Why for heaven’s sake…. Mr. Craig..GO AWAY.. we don’t need some disgraced old senator to tell Idaho how to spend our money.. we have enough people already telling us.

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  danofthecommunity on October 07 at 3:19 p.m.

  Properly built, staffed, and administrated this could be quite a boon for local communities and potential job seekers. They are usually good paying federal jobs with benefits.

  But not if it’s some cut rate private prison with substandard wages and no heath benefits for employees.

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  Kage_Mann on October 07 at 3:22 p.m.

  I could of sworn, there was talk of housing some of the Guantanamo Bay inmates (enemy combatants) there in Hardin,Mt.

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  Aliasjax on October 07 at 3:27 p.m.

  Yes…then throw all our elected officials inside.

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  LarrySpencer on October 07 at 4:14 p.m.

  @ me

  Strange stuff going on in Hardin Montana……

  “The agreement with American Police Force has been heavily promoted by members of the city’s economic development branch, the Two Rivers Authority.”

  It reads like willy wonka and the chocolate factory!!!! Don’t anybody tell Tony Berns!

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  mike_s on October 07 at 4:32 p.m.

  Spencer, can you explain your Willy Wonka analogy?

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  Soaf on October 07 at 4:36 p.m.

  mike_s on October 07 at 4:32 p.m.

  Spencer, can you explain your Willy Wonka analogy?
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  This should be good!

  ;-)

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  poolman on October 07 at 4:41 p.m.

  Yes new prisons can provide jobs to depressed areas. They also generate huge economic windfalls for many fortune 500 companies who vie for everything from cloths to soap to long distance phone service. Contracting companies like Brown & Root and Halliburton and engineering firms like CH2MHILL also stand to make huge profit margins on new facilities. But, you can feel safer because it gives us the ability to put even more people in jail.

  No civilized nation in the world has a higher percentage of its population in prison. Why - because it’s good biz. The criminal justice system is probably the biggest organized racket in this country and no one makes a peep about it. And why is that? Because they play on the one emotion people have no ability to reconcile – FEAR. Fear sells more prisons and more cops, fear gets politicians elected and fear gets people to buy newspapers and watch TV.

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  LarrySpencer on October 07 at 4:42 p.m.

  Mike/Soaf

  Did you read the story?

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  mike_s on October 07 at 4:48 p.m.

  Larry, I read it. Still, can you explain your Willy Wonka analogy?

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  Soaf on October 07 at 4:49 p.m.

  @Larry,

  Yup, and since I don’t have the ability nor the inclination to read your mind,,,,, I fail to make the connection.

  In other words,,,,, What’s your point?

  ******Heading Down the Rabbit hole********

  ;-)

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  LarrySpencer on October 07 at 5:02 p.m.

  Soaf, it is starting to get creepy the way you post together with MikeS, almost like you are sitting right beside him and you agree before you post what each of you will say! Strange, if you ask me.

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  mike_s on October 07 at 5:09 p.m.

  Guess I won’t waste any more time trying to decipher Spencer language, and the personal secret code that only he understands. Willy Wonka?

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  Soaf on October 07 at 5:16 p.m.

  No body asked you Spence.

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  LarrySpencer on October 07 at 5:33 p.m.

  I would keep talklng to you, but I know you can’t respond at this time. It has been fun though!

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  Soaf on October 07 at 5:38 p.m.

  Awwwwwww,,,, Spencer thinks I’m Mikey!!!!!!!!!!!!! That’s so cute!!!!

  Spencer wanna cookie?????

  :-P

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  Escapee on October 07 at 8:59 p.m.

  I think the greater question is, should Larry Craig be consulting anyone on anything?

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  HonestGeorge on October 07 at 9:08 p.m.

  If it was located in a small town - and I lived there then I would say NIMBY.

  If a prison is built, and unless it’s patterned after some medieval facility, it will allow family visitations. The local motels and restaraunts should then see benefits. The local hospital would have a larger supporting base because federally insured workers carry good health insurance. All to the good - but the downside includes a stigma when identified as a prison community. If 200 jobs is the end goal - period - then no sweat. But if the community is trying for a broader development vision e.g. developing a tourist destination image, then image becomes important.

  Indigent health care costs could rise as some prisoner’s families settle in for the long haul. Ditto welfare costs - and possibly crime. A large enough community could absorb all this with little consequence but a small community might not be so lucky.

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  Fishwife on October 08 at 7:54 a.m.

  I wouldn’t want the toe tapper lobbying for my city. Have they no pride? And, no, I want no part of the prison industrial complex.

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