News, New County Jail Proving To Be A Money-Maker. (prison, unemployment, Mexico)

[JD59]

The housing of federal detainees is proving to be a money-maker for a county in central Nebraska.

Hall County has generated $1.25 million since December from a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

New County Jail Proving To Be A Money-Maker

[zacatecana]

I clicked on the link but could not see the article so I can't say I can form an honest opinion but how does it "make money" when the money is coming out of tax payers?

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by zacatecana

I clicked on the link but could not see the article so I can't say I can form an honest opinion but how does it "make money" when the money is coming out of tax payers?

We call it Poetic Justice Stimulus. I'm willing to pay for that and the bus ride to the port of Brownsville, and a long boat ride to the southern tip of Mexico and all points beyond.

[zacatecana]

Originally Posted by BentBow

We call it Poetic Justice Stimulus. I'm willing to pay for that and the bus ride to the port of Brownsville, and a long boat ride to the southern tip of Mexico and all points beyond.

You may be able to donate your money to anyone you wish. Not all have that luxery. It certainly is unfair to tax payers. Where are those angry tax payers??As I have said before incarcerating and deporting is far more costly as I'm guessing this article is pointing out.

[macmeal]

Originally Posted by zacatecana

I clicked on the link but could not see the article so I can't say I can form an honest opinion but how does it "make money" when the money is coming out of tax payers?

I couldn't see the article either...but my gues would be that the jail provides jobs (relatively high-paying ones), in a remote county suffering from unemployment. Particularly if they have some sort of 'contract' to care for those shipped in from elsewhere. (As you know, The Government pays VERY well, and their checks never bounce. If you have a "contract" to provide services..ANY services... for the Government, it's like hitting a 'jackpot').

There's quite a movement today housing prisoners in remote, depressed areas..these places actually COMPETE with each other for the right to have prisons built there...they're looked at as "economic gold mines", and they don't pollute. Some of these places even contract to house convicted felons from other states. Oregon, for example, was recently shipping some of its prisoners to Texas; there, they could be housed cheaper than in Oregon. Wyoming, I believe, sends some of its felons to do their time in Virginia. It's a huge "business".

NOW..if you're saying that the taxpayers are paying for this...well, of course. It costs "us" a fortune to imprison people. But for the local population of that county, it's a 'moneymaker'...just like having a new air base, or a large shipyard...LOTS of money goes to the contractors who build it...and LOTS of money goes to the employees who staff the place....and these "prison jobs" may be the only jobs around.

And you and I pay for it all...of course....