(Arizona) Prison escape becomes campaign issue

[alp227]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- The escape of three convicts from a prison in Arizona last week has become an issue in the state's campaign for governor.

Attorney General Terry Goddard, a Democratic candidate, is accusing incumbent Republican Gov. Jan Brewer of increasing the risk of jailbreaks by favoring for-profit prisons over state-run prisons.

"The Brewer administration has consistently promoted private over public prisons, in spite of the public safety risk," he said. "The escape of these two violent offenders makes it clear how dangerous this policy has been."

Goddard is calling for a moratorium on putting violent criminals in for-profit facilities. "They're going to cut costs wherever they can," he told CNN Tuesday, "putting public safety at risk."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/10/arizona.gubernatorial.campaign.escape/index.html

[MadMaddie]

1. Good to see a Democratic candidate actually use a Republican

failing in public. While ole Jan is screaming about supposed crimes by illegal aliens (I am not talking about the drug gangs) these convicted murderers are roaming and killing innocent people.

[saracat]

2. Terry Rocks! Go get her! He is campigning on putting AZ back to work. She is using SB1070.

Guess what? They haven't yet figured out "illegals" can't take jobs we don't even have. We have far fewer illegals crossing the border looking for work not because of tightened borders or fear of Sherrif Joe, but because we have lost a lot of the businesses that might have employed them and those businesses also took the jobs that made it possible forothers to hire them.Mexico has a lower unemployment rate than we do!

[phantom power]

3. zomg -- somebody doing it right!

:wow:

[JonLP24]

4. I'm sure those private prisons

would gladly build more secure walls to keep their workers inside. It does bother me it takes something like this to hurt the private prison system. These assholes lobby congress for longer convictions just so they could cheap labor.
But he does bring up a good point about cut costs. I didn't think about this when I originally heard about this. I thought of everything I posted here except that cut costs angle. IMO, I think the privatize prisons would gladly build more secure walls but I didn't consider they would cut costs. That makes absolute sense.

Anyways. Go Terry!