I’ve put the state of Georgia on BLAST several times in the past and apparently they just LOVE the attention that HickTown gives them cause those country bumpkins STAY on my radar! [NO offense to my HickTowners who live in Georgia. I have quite a few of you who visit here regularly so this is not at you but at your state]
Georgia may not be sick of me but I’m about sick of Georgia. They have been crying and praying recently about the fact that it won’t rain there. Maybe a little suffering is what it will take to wake them up. They have some of the most evil “ministers” in the nation. Their criminal justice system is screwed up. Now look at this mess!
The warden of the Clayton County Correctional Institution wants permission to spend money for a “management tool” — satellite TV to keep his 226 inmates occupied watching football.
Warden Frank Taylor is asking the Clayton County Commission to let him sign up for direct-broadcast satellite service for less than $100 a month. It would be funded with money collected at the prison’s commissary and pay phones, which last year amounted to $41,000.
“The reason is ‘Monday Night Football’ is now on cable,” he said. “Although it might seem funny, when you have 90 percent of inmates watching something, it is a management tool for the institution.”
I’ve had about enough of Georgia. I’m sick and tired of their antics. The only thing criminals need is hard labor and a little suffering to remind them that they are in JAIL, as opposed to a FREE country club where they get to lay around enjoying luxury at the expense of the taxpayers! Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know they claim they will collect the money by other means, but trust me. The taxpayers will end up footing that bill once their money runs out.
Chain gang
An old fashioned chain gang is what criminals need
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I agree with you fully.This whole idea is completely ludacris.
As a resident of Clay Co ( as we call it) this is truly the least of our problems, but a perfect example of what is wrong with our county. TO make this situation worse- the Sheriff who oversees the jail and the chair of county commission who will vote are sworn enemies and act like little boys. It’s going to be interesting to be at this meeting and see how this power struggle will end, because I’m sure that is what this, as everything else has) will end up
Welcome to HickTown, Sunshine608 and I hope you will become a “resident”.
It was great hearing from a person who actually LIVES in that county b/c it is affecting you directly.
Keep us posted on how this unfolds!
Lynn
How about hooking up a VCR and tape the game for less then $100. Lets change the name of the song to “Georgia out of its mind”.
I suppport the wardens efforts to maintain order in his prison, which is likely overcrowd. The Quakers philosopy on prisons is that it should rehabilitate and change the man. However, our culture is bent on total punishment and throwing away the key. I am almost certain that the majority of the prison population across the United States is comprised of poor, uneducated, molested adults that are so demonicly possed from drugs, alchol and fast living that they have lost thier way. Unfortunately, many are so harden that they cannot be reached in many cases. Does watching football give them something to look forward to and give the warden a control tool for good behavior?
My question to Christians is what would Jesus do? I tell you that I am sure he would not condemn the men, he would visit the prisons and listen to these men, he would cast those demons out of these condemn men, he would make sure that they were treated fairly and were not abused. Jesus may have even pour the prisoners a glass of water and told them about redemption. I even think that Jesus would be proactive and try to help at risk children and give hope.
It always bothers me that people can ignore that over 200,000 men,women and childen have been killed or casualties in Iraq and over 2 million Iraqis are living on the streets in neboring countries and wonder why the world see us as heartless or infedels. Or maybe we should treat all our prisonners like we do the ones at GTMO and put them in dog cages and dehuminizing them, yes that is how you break a man spirit, but is it right…
I will get off my soap box…sorry for getting off the point.
bobmarley1
Good points, BobMarley.
Prison should indeed have a type of balance. I am all for the rehabilitation of prisoners and in fact, prisoners who desire to be rehabilitated have that opportunity. There are preachers and priests who visit prisons. There are bible study groups. College is offered. Tutors are offered.
What I DO have a problem with is them being offered luxuries, which is what football is. I can go with what Cop said about making them wait until AFTER the game is over—give them a delay, and they let them watch it on VCR. But watching it live? Only if they have personally paid to watch it live.
Many of those men are in there because they destroyed somone’s family in some way. They have caused devastation and grief to someone so yes, I want to see them punished and suffering a little.