Coming soon to ICE jails:plants,movies,continental breakfast - New England Patriots Forums

***Leave No Doubt*** · 06-11-2010, 12:37 PM

Keeping our detainees healthy, happy, and comfortable:

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At the CCA facilities that have agreed to ICE's changes, detainees will see more variety in their dining hall menus and have self-serve beverage and fresh vegetable bars.

CCA also plans to offer movie nights, bingo, arts and crafts, dance and cooking classes, tutoring and computer training, the e-mail states.

Detainees also will be allowed four hours or more of recreation “in a natural setting, allowing for robust aerobic exercise.”

CCA also committed to improving the look of the facilities, such as requiring plants, fresh paint and new bedding in lower-risk units.

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Rosenberg said some of the changes, like new flower baskets, may seem small, but they will combine with the bigger changes to make a difference in the daily lives of detainees.

“Taken together they will go some way to making this system less penal,” she said.

Coming for some at ICE jails: bingo and continental breakfast | Facebook | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

***DarrylS*** · 06-11-2010, 01:15 PM

These folks are non-adjudicated, and you have to afford them some basics.. like it or not, everything cannot be Abu Ghraib...

CCA, COrrections Corporation of America, is a greedy pig of an organization and industry, they can afford all this stuff, plus much more.... they are involved in scandal after scandal.

CCA docked $2,600 a day for using unqualified counselors | tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Hernando should sue CCA over mess at county jail - St. Petersburg Times

New prison, opening amid budget concerns, could save money in the long run Idaho Reporter

You are aware of the millions spent in Guantanamo on skate parks, volleyball courts and the like.. it comes out to be something like 2.8 million per prisoner..

Guantanamo Bay's $2 Billion Pricetag | Mother Jones

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KBR's bill for building prison facilities: $169 million (not including bonuses)

Courthouse complex: $13 million

Baseball and football fields: $7.3 million

27 playgrounds:* $3.5 million

A heretofore empty sleeping quarters for visitors attending military commissions: $2.2 million

KFC/Taco Bell building remodel: $773,000

Starbucks coffee house (and ice cream shop) building remodel: $683,000

An unused go-kart track: $296,000

"Club Survivor," an abandoned volleyball court: $249,000

Marquee welcome signs: $188,000

*There are only 398 kids under 18 at Gitmo right now, that's a playground for every 15 kids. Playgrounds are awesome and all but how could there ever be enough people on base, playing with their kids at the same time, or even playing without kids, to warrant 27 of them?

TBradyOwnsYou · 06-11-2010, 01:26 PM

It sounds like heaven!

mcgraw_wv · 06-11-2010, 02:04 PM

I can tell you that our prison system if anything turns out worse people than when they went in.

If we can't focus on rehabilitating them, then were just incubating worse citizens.

PatsFanInEaglesLand · 06-11-2010, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by mcgraw_wv

I can tell you that our prison system if anything turns out worse people than when they went in.

If we can't focus on rehabilitating them, then were just incubating worse citizens.

These aren't citizen's getting these luxuries.

mcgraw_wv · 06-11-2010, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by PatsFanInEaglesLand

These aren't citizen's getting these luxuries.

The system is broken, we have the most per capita people locked up, and when they get out they aren't productive members of our society. Not to mention the cost of sheltering and feeding the large amount of inmates we have and that continue to return to prison.

Something s wrong, something different needs to be changed.