The tents are being shipped in tomorrow.
Sorry, let me start again.
The tents are being shipped in tomorrow.
Al was pretty curious to know what the assistant deputy superintendant of the jail was doing with surveying equipment. Are they going to put up more concrete slabs to stop the officers from using the parking lot again? Maybe they'll get the chain gangs to start digging moats to prevent their own escape?
It's because the tents are being shipped in tomorrow.
See, you've got this right wing sheriff in a left wing state with a left wing governor. The sheriff built an immigration facility a few years ago and he's getting a $100 a head per day or so to keep them there. The governor wants that money so he wants that facility as part of the state system. The sheriff wants that money to buy anti-terrorism boats and command centers to show off during parades. So the governor slashes his budget. He says, your budget is $17 million, but you're getting $7 million in federal money, so here's the remaining $10 million for your budget.
So the tents are being shipped in tomorrow.
We've got to cut back. It costs $1 per inmate per day just to feed all these fuckers! We can't have that, and it's not like we're going to ask our attorney to hand in his department issued iPhone so we can feed another inmate for an entire month. He's cutting back on programs. Right after dinner now those jailbirds are getting locked back into their cells and, well, we don't really have the room for all of them so why don't we just
ship in the tents tomorrow.
Hold a couple of press conferences mentioning we're going to have to close our regional lock up facility, get it on the local news. Let it be known that it's the state's fault, the state's damn fault that we're shutting down that sattelite jail. That way, when the tent city and the restricted activity hours go into effect on the same day and you get a bunch of angry inmates demanding their privileges back and getting each other riled up, pushing the guards who are pushing them back and bouncing back and forth in their overcrowded areas well, you warned them didn't you, you warned those state fat cats what would happen so it's not your fault the eighteen year old officer who just got out of the academy gets the piss beaten out of him by angry convicts and our hearts are with his family during this difficult time for all of us. But about that money I asked for.
Anyway the tents are being shipped in tomorrow.
I'm sure it'll be just fine.
