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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    John Cherry's Michigan: Turning the Great Lakes State into a penal colony


    By Nick, Section News
    Posted on Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 07:42:29 AM EST
    Tags: Granholm-Cherry, 2010, Cherry, Granholm, DOC, Marlan, prisons, MSP, troopers, penal colony, triangle project (all tags)

    What universe am I living in?  Did I fall asleep and wake up on some other plane of existence?  Am I awake at all?  Is this all nothing but a really bizarre bureaucratic nightmare?

    Serious questions created by a serious bit of... pure, unadulterated lunacy... coming out of the Granholm-Cherry administration.  Yesterday 100 state police troopers lost their jobs on orders from the Governor and her 2010 Gubernatorial candidate.  Last week Lansing Democrats fought to keep alive the administration's dream for a new, inefficient, hundred million dollar state police headquarters that the state police don't want.  Meanwhile, this year alone, 3,500 dangerous convicted felons are being released EARLY from prison and set loose in Michigan neighborhoods.

    So what's a state to do with fewer cops walking the beat, more law enforcement dollars swallowed up paying to provide pet projects (and big paydays) to Democratic donors / developers and a sudden spike in the number of dangerous career criminals prowling the streets?

    Import more criminals.  From California.  

    Import.  Criminals.  From California.

    Who came up with this idea, Lex Luthor?  Norman Osborn?  The Joker?  No, no and, well...

    According to Booth Newspapers, this one is the brainchild of the Granholm-Cherry team.  

    California has too many prisoners and Michigan soon will have too many empty prison cells.

    Therein lies the possibility of a "mutually beneficial partnership," Gov. Jennifer Granholm told Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in a letter Monday...

    In her letter, Granholm referenced earlier conversations with Schwarzenegger in which she said Michigan "could be of help."

    Granholm said she was "certain that Michigan can provide a safe and secure environment for prisoners and help prepare them for a return to California and a crime-free lifestyle."

    What's worse, this can't even be chocked up as an outside-the-box scheme to generate extra revenue for the state.  According to Department of Corrections spokesman Russ Marlan, "we're not looking to make any money off this."  

    Marlan said in regards to the California offer, Michigan would be seeking mainly to recover labor, food and health care costs.

    Maybe we shouldn't be surprised.  The administration has already crippled our economy, swelled the ranks of the unemployed to record levels, put a nearly unbearable strain on the state's social services and grown the size of the Lansing bureaucracy to astronomical proportions (the budget has grown by nearly $6 billion since Granholm and Cherry took their oaths of office in January 2003).  Suppose it was only a matter of time before they tried turning Michigan into a penal colony.

    Plus, look at it this way... importing hardened criminals is ONE way of countering the dramatic outbound population flight we've seen the last six years.  Better yet, unlike hardworking Michigan families who've just plain had enough, Californian prisoners couldn't leave, even if they wanted to.

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    Unless I missed something (none / 0) (#1)
    by steve on Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 08:19:23 AM EST
    Unless I missed something, California is even more broke than we are and are passing out IOU's (I'm surprised Lansing hasn't tried this one, yet), how are they going to pay us for taking the prisoners?

    Good Points by Both Nicky and Steve (none / 0) (#2)
    by The Blue Diamond on Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 08:45:49 AM EST
    Hey, remind me, what planet are we living on again???? It's definitely not Planet Common Sense. Earth to Scamholm, earth to Scamholm. Come in, Scamholm. Why in the world would anyone even think about doing this to our state? This is a very DUMB idea and definitely one that doesn't make any sense.

    At least if something... (none / 0) (#3)
    by rdww on Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 09:18:34 AM EST
    ... should go terribly wrong with the plan, the Great Lake State can look forward to a visit from Snake Plissken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_New_York

    • Hmmmm? by KG One, 06/30/2009 12:11:03 PM EST (none / 0)
    you stole my Snake Plissken joke! (none / 0) (#4)
    by goppartyreptile on Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 09:49:20 AM EST
    Why are we even considering transferring California's gang problem to Michigan?

    These guys run whole organizations from inside the pen, you think they aren't gonna want to set up satellite offices here to take over from the locals?

    Where is Robocop when you need him?

    What's the big deal? (none / 0) (#7)
    by dsheill on Tue Jun 30, 2009 at 12:56:11 PM EST
    Nick, I personally don't see anything new about this policy. I mean, we already import tons of garbage from New Jersey. The only difference is now we're importing human trash from California. And instead of being such a cynic, I think you should look at this from a more positive light for the potential it brings...

    Granholm still has those movie production tax credits, right? So my feeling is once we finally see Detroit hit rock bottom: 1) build a Berlin-style wall across 8 mile road, 2) use all of that abandoned space in the city to create a prison colony, 3) invite Robocop and Kirt "the snake" Russell to make the greatest blockbuster of all time: ESCAPE FROM DETROIT!!! It could be the first ever reality-based action film, similar to "Death Race" (2008) starring Jason Statham.

    California will be very sorry when they give us these inmates because, with them, they will also give us the spark necessary to compete with Hollywood!


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