Post by Clipper on Aug 6, 2012 15:28:47 GMT -5
www.uticaod.com/latestnews/x1225369405/Advocates-want-free-NY-prison-visitor-bus-back
Really? 1.5 million bucks a year to transport inmate's families from NYC to the upstate prisons for visitation?
I transported a bus load of those folks back to NYC once when I drove for Birnie Bus Co part time. Their bus had broken down while in Rome. They were the rudest, most demanding, ignorant people I ever had on a bus in the 20+ yrs I drove a bus for a part time job. Typical of the "entitled class." It is like we OWED it to them to insure that they could take a nice bus ride upstate and out of the city, and we OWED it to them to insure that they got to visit their inmate loved ones.
It is too bad that their loved ones are criminals. It is too bad that they are without a mother, or father, or husband or wife, while the scumbags do their time in prison. NOT MY PROBLEM, AND NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY TO PAY FOR THEIR VISITS. I am glad they don't have such a program in Tennessee. It's bad enough that we have to support the families because the breadwinner is in prison without paying for them to have visitors once a month also.
Our convicts here are treated like convicts, not coddled. Red Onion State Prison is noted for being a hell hole where no inmate wants to serve their sentence. Maybe Daddy should have kept his nose clean and not perpetrated a crime against some other innocent party. Daddy would not BE in prison if he obeyed the law, and I might add that one doesn't go to prison for a traffic ticket. Convicts have committed a crime bad enough to warrant their being taken out of society for a extended period of time. They aren't jay walkers. A few years without family is simply collateral results of their criminal behavior.
Really? 1.5 million bucks a year to transport inmate's families from NYC to the upstate prisons for visitation?
I transported a bus load of those folks back to NYC once when I drove for Birnie Bus Co part time. Their bus had broken down while in Rome. They were the rudest, most demanding, ignorant people I ever had on a bus in the 20+ yrs I drove a bus for a part time job. Typical of the "entitled class." It is like we OWED it to them to insure that they could take a nice bus ride upstate and out of the city, and we OWED it to them to insure that they got to visit their inmate loved ones.
It is too bad that their loved ones are criminals. It is too bad that they are without a mother, or father, or husband or wife, while the scumbags do their time in prison. NOT MY PROBLEM, AND NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY TO PAY FOR THEIR VISITS. I am glad they don't have such a program in Tennessee. It's bad enough that we have to support the families because the breadwinner is in prison without paying for them to have visitors once a month also.
Our convicts here are treated like convicts, not coddled. Red Onion State Prison is noted for being a hell hole where no inmate wants to serve their sentence. Maybe Daddy should have kept his nose clean and not perpetrated a crime against some other innocent party. Daddy would not BE in prison if he obeyed the law, and I might add that one doesn't go to prison for a traffic ticket. Convicts have committed a crime bad enough to warrant their being taken out of society for a extended period of time. They aren't jay walkers. A few years without family is simply collateral results of their criminal behavior.
Chris, you are correct. There were many other services in the prison facilities that also was use to go to pay for the bus trips for inmate families. One being some of the profit from the food vending machines in the visiting rooms that the families visiting supported.